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Nexo sued for causing over $5 million in damages by ‘unlawful’ suspension of XRP payments
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| Last updated: February 6th, 2024
UK-based crypto loan provider, Nexo has been sued for allegedly causing over $5 million worth of losses by suspending XRP payments in December last year. This was after SEC accused Ripple of an alleged illegal securities offering. The class-action lawsuit has been filed by Plaintiff Junhan Jeong, a California resident, on behalf of other XRP users who suffered damages as a result of Nexus’ decision. According to the filing:
Plaintiff seeks redress for the nationwide harm resulting from Nexo’s intentional and unjustified suspension on December 23, 2020, of a critical repayment option on its platform for using crypto assets to borrow cash and from the resulting liquidation of the collateral of hundreds of Nexo customers, causing well over $5 million in damages.
After SEC sued Ripple in December last year, several crypto service providers decided to suspend XRP from their platforms including exchanges.
However, the latest filing accused Nexo of prohibiting customers from maintaining “their LTV ratios and then punished them for not maintaining their LTV ratios.”
The plaintiff claimed that customers who could have “used XRP to post as supplemental collateral” or to pay down their loans “were unable to do so.”
Nexo’s suspension of XRP payments and liquidation of these customers’ collateral, therefore, was unlawful, and these customers are entitled to recover the value of their XRP when Nexo suspended its use and the value of their liquidated collateral as of breach (less the outstanding loan amounts on that collateral).
Additionally, Nexo has been accused of allegedly liquidating collateral and keeping the proceeds for itself. The lawsuit also touched upon the fact that Nexo failed to provide notice of its suspension of XRP payments and “also constituted unlawful and unfair business acts and practices” under California law.
Plaintiff Junhan Jeong described that he lost his collateral of 598,384.6188 XRP, worth approximately $269,300.
