Mango Markets’ creator, Mango Labs, has brought a lawsuit against Avraham Eisenberg. This is the fourth time the Mango Markets exploiter has been charged with lawsuits relating to his attack on the DeFi protocol.
In a complaint made on January 25, Einseberg is accused of abusing its platform in October 2022 to get millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies, according to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. It demands interest beginning at the moment of the assault in addition to $47 million in damages.
Additionally, it requested that the court revoke and declare “void and unenforceable” a contract between Eisenberg and a linked decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) of Mango.
The arrangement arose from Eisenberg’s governance proposal, which requested permission from the DAO to retain $47 million in exchange for Mango Markets agreeing not to file a criminal complaint for the theft of its funds.
Eisenberg “was not engaged in legitimate negotiation,” according to Mango Labs’ most recent lawsuit, adding:
“[Eisenberg] forced Mango DAO to enter into an unenforceable settlement agreement—under duress—purporting to release depositors’ claims against him and precluding them from pursuing a criminal investigation.”
On October 11, 2022, a hacker used Mango Markets’ native Mango (MNGO) token as collateral for under-collateralized loans, draining the company’s treasury of almost $117 million.
Eisenberg then identified himself as the assailant. He said that the exploit was “legitimate open market activity, utilizing the protocol as planned” and that it was a “very lucrative trading technique.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) detained Eisenberg on December 27 in Puerto Rico and accused him of one count of commodities fraud and one count of manipulation for his assault on the platform.
Following up on the FBI’s accusations, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged Eisenberg with two counts of market manipulation on January 9.
Eisenberg suffered a further setback on January 20 when the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accused him of breaking securities laws’ anti-fraud and market manipulation provisions.
In the Mango Labs lawsuit, it was stated that Eisenberg “attacked [s] several cryptocurrency platforms and manipulates cryptocurrency markets” in the past.
Eisenberg has tried to take use of several procedures. On November 22, he made use of several complex techniques in an effort to take advantage of the DeFi protocol Aave.
