Telegram to pay back investors $1.2B for failed ICO
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Jaclyn Jaeger2020-06-29T16:08:00
Telegram Group will return more than $1.2 billion in ill-gotten gains to investors and pay an $18.5 million civil penalty to resolve SEC charges that its unregistered offering of digital tokens violated federal securities laws.
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