They present the first criminal complaint against Milei to promote the fraudulent cryptocurrency and accuse him of “megaestafa”
Several Argentine political leaders and lawyers presented on Sunday the first criminal complaint against the Argentine President, Javier Milei, for “Illicit Association”, “Escils” and “Failure to comply with the duties of a public official”, after the head of state promoted $ Libra, a cryptocurrency with possible fraudulent links.
In the judicial letter, which was made public by the complainants themselves through social networks, Milei is accused of being a participant in an alleged “megaestafa” that has affected more than 40,000 people who have suffered losses of heritage superior to superior to 4,000 million dollars.
The complaint indicates to the Head of State as “necessary and fundamental participant in an association that had as its axis a historical scam through cryptocurrencies” and involves figures close to its circle: the militants of freedom Avanca Agustín Laje and the 'Gordo 'Dan and the president of the Chamber of Deputies of Argentina, Martín Menem, nephew of former president Carlos Menem and vice president of the Milei party.
In addition, the entrepreneur and CEO of Kip Protocol, Julian Peh, who developed the cryptocurrency, as well as the representative of Kelsier Ventures, Hayden Mark Davis, who would have provided the necessary technological infrastructure for $ LIBRA, as well as other possible responsible people who They could arise during the investigation.
“A concerted organization in committing thousands of scams premeditated and simultaneously. In this megaestafa, it had as necessary participants who organized and created the $ LIBRA project and also to the same extent to those who promoted and gave reliability and support to the project, ”adds the document.
Milei, after promoting a “private entrepreneurship” based on the $ LIBRA cryptocurrency on its social networks, which has no real economic support and was designed to capitalize Its details.
During the time in which the message was visible, the demand for cryptodye was shot, its value inflated, moved millions of dollars and then collapsed.
A financial report by the American firm Kobbeissi Letter has revealed that, after the jump in value, the initial investors of the “entrepreneurship” began to withdraw the money obtaining about 87.4 million dollars in earnings and “in five hours more hours were erased of 4.4 billion market capitalization ”.
The lawsuit argues that there was “coordination” between the moment when the project and the promotion tweet of Milei was made public and ensure that there is no possibility that it would not have knowledge of the project in advance.
As precautionary measures, the complainants have asked the Argentine Justice records in the fifth of Olivos (Presidential Residence) and the Presidency of the Nation to seize electronic equipment, as well as identify and record the homes of the denounced and the companies involved.
They also requested the intervention and expertise of the X platform to protect the content of the Milei account and the other reported, as well as the blockage of their digital portfolios and bank accounts and implement traceability measures of the $ LIBRA transactions to identify The beneficiaries of the scam.
This criminal complaint, the first registered with the Justice of Argentina, has been presented by the specialized lawyers Jonatan Baldiviezo and Marcos Zelay Popular Unity Party and was director of the Bank of the Argentine Nation (better known as Banco Nación) between 2020 and 2022.
