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SEC v. Rahim Mohamed, Davies ("Dave") Wong, et al. (hijacked account ramping, 2022)

Alleged — pending

These are allegations. SEC has filed an action; nothing in it has been proven, and the respondents have not been found liable. Everything described on this page is what the regulator alleges, not what a court has found. See our editorial policy.

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 2022, the Securities and Exchange Commission brought an action against Rahim Mohamed and 17 others, alleging conduct this library classifies as hijacked account ramping. No monetary relief has been recorded at this stage; the matter is an allegation and remains unproven.

The record

Structured fields for this action, as recorded in our case library.
Agency SEC
Release number LR-25469
Date filed 2022-08-15
Court U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia
Status filed
Asset class equities
Criminal parallel No
Defendants Rahim Mohamed (individual) ; Davies ("Dave") Wong (individual) ; Glenn B. Laken (individual) ; Richard C.S. Tang (individual) ; Zoltan Nagy (individual) ; Jeffrey D. Cox (individual) ; Phillip G. Sewell (individual) ; Breanne M. Wong (individual) ; Christophe Merani (individual) ; Anna Tang (individual) ; Robert W. Seeley (individual) ; Richard B. Smith (individual) ; Christopher R. Smith (individual) ; H.E. Capital SA (entity) ; POP Holdings Ltd. (entity) ; Maximum Ventures Holdings LLC (entity) ; Harmony Ridge Corp. (entity) ; Avatele Group LLC (entity)
Techniques Hijacked-account ramping

What was ordered

Civil penalty
Disgorgement
Prejudgment interest
Total relief
Alleged gain
$1m

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 filed this matter on August 15, 2022; the release announcing it is dated August 16, 2022 (release LR-25469). The respondents named are Rahim Mohamed and 17 others (13 individuals, 5 entities). The action was brought in the U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia.

This library tags the matter as hijacked account ramping, 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 equities.

This matter is at the allegation stage. Nothing in the regulator's filing has been proven, and the respondents are entitled to the presumption that it has not been. This page will be updated if the matter is resolved, dismissed or withdrawn.

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. 2022-08-15 Complaint filed (N.D. Ga., No. 1:22-cv-03252)

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. Dmitrii Yevgenyevich Kushnarev (hijacked account ramping, 2025) SEC 2025-09-24 Hijacked Account Ramping filed
SEC v. Joseph P. Willner (hijacked account ramping, 2017) SEC 2017-10-30 Hijacked Account Ramping judgment
SEC v. Idris D. Mustapha (hijacked account ramping, 2016) SEC 2016-06-22 Hijacked Account Ramping filed

Record added September 20, 2026. If this matter has since resolved, been withdrawn or been dismissed, we want to know: submit a correction.