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SEC v. Edgar M. Radjabli, Apis Capital Management LLC and My Loan Doctor LLC (sham tender offers, 2021)

Settled

Machine-extracted, pending human review. The structured fields on this page were parsed automatically from the regulator's own release, linked below. Read the primary document before relying on any figure here, and tell us if something is wrong.

In 2021, the Securities and Exchange Commission settled an action with Edgar M. Radjabli, Apis Capital Management LLC and My Loan Doctor LLC, alleging conduct this library classifies as sham tender offers. The release records a civil penalty of $419,330, disgorgement of $162,800, prejudgment interest of $17,870.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number LR-25115
Date filed 2021-06-11
Date resolved 2021-06-11
Court U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina
Status settled
Asset class crypto, equities
Criminal parallel No
Bars imposed conduct-based injunction, penny stock bar
Defendants Edgar M. Radjabli (individual) ; Apis Capital Management LLC (entity) ; My Loan Doctor LLC (entity)
Techniques Sham tender offers

What was ordered

Civil penalty
$419k
Disgorgement
$163k
Prejudgment interest
$17.9k
Total relief
$600k
Alleged gain
$163k

A dash means the release did not state a figure we could extract, not that the figure is zero. Penalty and disgorgement are stored separately so aggregates across the library do not double-count the same dollars.

What is alleged to have happened

the Securities and Exchange Commission announced this matter on June 11, 2021 as release LR-25115. The respondents named are Edgar M. Radjabli, Apis Capital Management LLC and My Loan Doctor LLC (1 individual, 2 entities). The action was brought in the U.S. District Court, District of South Carolina.

This library tags the matter as sham tender offers, based on the conduct the regulator describes. Each tag links to a page explaining how that technique works, what statute it engages, and what penalties comparable actions have attracted. The tagging is ours, not the regulator's: agencies charge statutory provisions, not technique names.

The conduct is recorded against crypto and equities.

The relief recorded in our data is a civil monetary penalty of $419,330, disgorgement of $162,800, prejudgment interest of $17,870. Penalty and disgorgement are distinct: disgorgement returns the gain, while the penalty is punitive. We store them separately so that aggregate figures across the library are not double-counted.

Non-monetary relief recorded: conduct-based injunction, penny stock bar.

Note on the figures: The proposed settlement, subject to court approval when announced, has Radjabli, Apis Capital and Loan Doctor jointly and severally liable for the $600,000 total.

For the regulator's own account of the facts, read the primary document linked above. This page deliberately summarises the structured record rather than reproducing the release.

What technique is this, and how does it work?

This action is tagged with one technique in our taxonomy. The tagging is ours: regulators charge statutory provisions, not technique names, so the mapping is an editorial judgement described in our editorial policy.

Timeline

  1. 2021-06-11 Litigation release published

Primary documents

Everything on this page derives from the documents below. Where our summary and the primary document disagree, the primary document is right.

The linked release is a work of the United States government and is not subject to copyright. Our summary and narrative above are our own writing.

Other actions in the library sharing at least one technique tag with this one.

Action Agency Filed Technique Penalty Status
SEC v. Melville Peter ten Cate (sham tender offers, 2023) SEC 2023-01-03 Sham Tender Offers $500k judgment
SEC v. Lee Simmons (price manipulation, 2022) SEC 2022-08-19 EDGAR Filing Fraud , Price Manipulation +1 filed
SEC v. PTG Capital Partners, Ltd. (sham tender offers, 2020) SEC 2020-03-11 EDGAR Filing Fraud , Sham Tender Offers $1.5m judgment
SEC v. Mark E. Burns (price manipulation, 2019) SEC 2019-08-12 EDGAR Filing Fraud , Price Manipulation +1 $60k judgment
SEC v. Mark E. Burns, Robert W. Murray (price manipulation, 2018) SEC 2018-07-17 EDGAR Filing Fraud , Price Manipulation +1 settled
SEC v. Nauman A. Aly (sham tender offers, 2018) SEC 2018-03-28 EDGAR Filing Fraud , Sham Tender Offers unknown

Record added September 20, 2026. submit a correction.