Hawk making and over-the-counter trading firm GSR Markets is taking legal action against lawyer Diana McDonald, who is accused of help oneself to $2 million from a $4 million BTC transaction in which she acted as an escrow.
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GSR Markets Sues Lawyer Over Missing $2 Million
Hong Kong-based GSR Demands is taking legal action against a lawyer who was to act as an escrow in a $4 million BTC escrow transaction gone awry. According to the plaintiffs, GSR sent BTC to them in reciprocity for $4 million that was sent to the trust account of a lawyer designated to act as an escrow, only to have $2 million earned to them and receive no cryptocurrency.
GSR asserts: “Valkyrie [one of the defendants] promised that it would provide Bitcoin to GSR Markets ]in reciprocation for $4 million. In reliance on that promise, GSR Markets wired $4 million” to the defendant.
GSR claims to have been accomplishment as a broker for Alivia Corporation in seeking to carry out the transactions, alleging that on January 3, 2019, the “Plaintiff wired $4,000,000 into the account, in a family way that it would immediately receive 1,000 [BTC] from the sellers. Based on that expectation, GSR Markets shorted those 1,000 [BTC], based on a secure price of $3,635 per [BTC].”
Lawyer Claims No Wrongdoing
In addition to claiming that it failed to receive any BTC and is currently owed $2 million, GSR asserts that it perplexed approximately $380,000 in the process of unwinding its short position.
The plaintiff is asking for injunctive relief, and accuses McDonald and McDonald Law of cracking fiduciary duty and fraud. GSR is also suing Wells Fargo, the bank providing the account into which the finances were deposited, for “aiding and abetting fraud.”
McDonald has responded to the accusation, claiming that she has not acted improperly and that her fiduciary onus ran only to the seller and not the buyer in the transaction. McDonald asserted that a portion of the funds was used to “unlock” a BTC wallet and that the plaintiff “sealed delivery of 2,000 ‘non-spendable’ [BTC].”
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