Theranos和创始人伊丽莎白·福尔摩斯（Elizabeth Holmes）被指控涉嫌7.5亿美元欺诈

美国证券交易委bob200体育员会已针对其首席执行官兼创始人伊丽莎白·福尔摩斯（Elizabeth Holmes）及其前总统拉梅什·巴尔瓦尼（Ramesh Balwani）提起欺诈指控。监管机构辩称，他们进行了一年的欺诈行为，从投资者那里筹集了超过7亿美元的欺诈行为。

According to the SEC’s complaint, the three of them made statements that were false, exaggerated, and/or misleading regarding the company’s business, finances, and technology. They purportedly did this in presentations to investors, media articles, and product demos.

由于这些错误，欺骗性和膨胀的陈述，投资者认为Theranos的主要产品是一种便携式血液分析仪，可以用微量的血液样本进行全面的血液检查。此外，Theranos声称该公司具有运输手指棒样品的技术，将样品放入将进入分析仪的专用设备中，分析仪可以确定结果。然后，这些发现可以发送给护理提供者或患者。据推测，Theranos的技术能够比任何其他血液测试实验室都能提供更便宜，更快，更准确的结果，更不用说它是便携式的。

实际上，监管机构认为，分析仪只能完成“少量测试”。同时，Theranos使用符合行业标准并经过修改的其他人制作的商业分析仪进行了大多数患者测试。SEC声称，尽管在患者测试菜单上列出了200多种血液检查，但专有分析仪仅进行了12种。

An example that the SEC cites in its press release of inaccurate claims made by Theranos, its CEO, and ex-president, is that the US Department of Defense had sent the company’s products to an Afghanistani battlefield using medevac helicopters and that this resulted in over $100M in revenue. In reality, said the Commission, the government didn’t get these products and Theranos only made slightly more than $100K in revenue that year.

Theranosand Holmes are settling the SEC charges but without denying or admitting to them. Holmes will, however, pay $500K, is barred from serving as a public company director or officer for a decade, and must give back the 18.9M shares she acquired during the alleged fraud. She also has to surrender her voting shares of Theranos.

现在，她的股票将成为A类普通股。如果公司被清算或收购，福尔摩斯将无法作为所有者赚钱，直到被欺骗并获得优先股东的投资者获得超过7.5亿美元的投资者。

同时，SEC针对Balwani的案件仍在联邦地方法院继续进行。监管机构希望将来禁止他违反证券法，使他支付民事罚款和“适当”的救济，并禁止他担任公开上市公司的董事bob200体育或官员。

TheranosFaces More Litigation and a Criminal Probe

华尔街日报reports that a lot of Theranos investors, which include some incredibly high net worth individuals and well-known investors, have lost almost the full value of their investments. For example, News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch reportedly lost over $100M.

Theranos已经解决了对冲基金投资者和Walgreens提起的诉讼，该诉讼引入了Theranos Lab测试中心的数十家药店，并计划在其更多商店中这样做。

几年前，医疗保险和医疗补助服务中心发现，Theranos对某些血液检查的不当行为使一些患者陷入“直接危险”。该公司仍在接受美国检察官的刑事调查。

SEC对Theranos和Holmes的投诉(PDF)

SEC对Balwani的投诉(PDF)

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