Former Pepecoin (PEPE) promoter turned cryptocurrency influencer Jeremy “Pauly” Cahen has filed insider trading charges against the Pepecoin team after some 16 trillion PEPE tokens were reportedly stolen. Pauly has now exposed the identities of the team members, leaking their wallet activity. On-chain analysts also pointed out that Pepecoin transactions involved insiders.
In an update on August 26, Pauly disclosed The Pepecoin team owns approximately $16-17 million worth of PEPE tokens spread across 9 wallets. Surprisingly, insiders haven’t sold their stakes. Instead, they strategically offloaded PEPE from centralized exchange (CEX) wallets, establishing large short positions.
“I will likely be working with multiple law enforcement agencies to ensure that @degenharambe and his other partners on the @pepecoineth team are brought to justice as quickly as possible. Many people have been undeservedly harmed by their greed and crime.”
He also revealed the personal information of several members of the Pepecoin team and detailed their trading activities. According to Pauly, the Pepecoin team is taking advantage of the community, claiming that their interpretation of multisig wallets and PEPE holdings is completely wrong.
The insider lists in this post are up for sale $PEPE 50 minutes ago.
400 billion $PEPE Already sold primarily from this address:
0x22f6215b40434D9135B06f1C676fd9291936Aac3You can track their activities here: https://t.co/k0KCpeHTyR
— Publisher (@ApostedXBT) August 26, 2023
On-chain analyst Yazan said the insider sell-off of PEPE’s holdings has start, has sold about 400 billion PEPE, which coincides with Pauly’s exposure of Pepecoin team members. In response, Yazan called on cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance and OKX to take steps to prevent insider trading.
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The price of Pepecoin has turned bearish, plunging 15% as the team executes the sell-off. Although the price of PEPE briefly rose by 10%, it failed to maintain the upward momentum and fell, exacerbating the general negative sentiment in the community.
according to According to CoinMarketCap, PEPE was priced at $0.00000090 at the time of writing, down 7% over the past 24 hours.
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