British sprinter and Olympian CJ Ujah has denied enjoying a component in an alleged cryptocurrency fraud.
The athlete was amongst 10 individuals who appeared earlier than Chelmsford Crown Court accused of being half of an organised crime group linked to a scamming exercise.
The alleged fraud concerned cellphone calls to a number of victims from individuals purporting to be law enforcement officials and cryptocurrency firms.
The 32-year-old from Enfield, north London, turned the fifth Briton to break the 10-second barrier for the 100m in 2014.
One of the alleged victims is alleged to have misplaced greater than £300,000.
People are reported to have been tricked into sharing essential safety particulars earlier than discovering funds saved of their crypto wallets have been stolen.
A sequence of co-ordinated search warrants have been carried out throughout Kent, Essex and London on 29 April as half of an investigation by a specialist regional policing organisation tackling severe and organised crime throughout jap England.
A 12-week trial was set for Chelmsford Crown Court from 24 May subsequent yr, with the subsequent court docket listening to due to be held on the identical court docket on 9 September.
At the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, Ujah raced within the 4x100m ultimate however examined constructive for 2 banned substances that led to his staff being stripped of their silver medal.
He was subsequently cleared of deliberately taking prohibited substances.
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