Chilean financial influencer Clemente Varas Collado (25) He was one of those who losing after the consequences of the $ Libra case scandal. The young man invested US $12,000 and said he lost half of that amount. However, President Javier Milei is not a scam.
“I thought $ Libra was a safer version because it was promoted by the Argentine president. It didn’t seem like a memecoin but something more serious, “said the young man based in South Florida, United States.
An influencer lost US $ 6,000 and said he has “friends who lost up to US $ 100,000”
“The world of crypto was collapsed after this. There are many people who lost a lot of money,” Varas told the BBC Mundo. He visited Buenos Aires last October to attend Argentina Fintech Forum 2024.
“Milei is someone who is well respected by the world of cryptocurrencies,” he says and assures that this negatively affects the international image of the Argentine president in the world of finance.
According to the criminal complaint filed, Milei would have integrated an “illicit association” with more than 40,000 people affected and “Losses for more than US $ 4 billion. “Milei, however, said there are no more than 5,000 affected people.
However, for rods it is not an attempt to scam but a possible lack of information that made it change their minds. Before the consultation of whether he lost money, Varas said: “I lost half. I put $ 2,000. I have friends who lost up to US $ 100,000, people who had gone very well with Trump’s coins“He said.
Video is filtered without editing Javier Milei with Jonatan Viale’s interview with questions
Milei on Monday gave an interview with the journalist Jonatan Viale to defend himself from the Cryptocurrency Scandal $ Libra. Hours after the report was disseminated, a video without editing of it was known in which the advisor Santiago Caputo interrupts the dialogue.
The reason was to prevent the president from talking about the risk of judging himself judicially. The images were disseminated tonight by the journalist Ari Lijalad in his “X” account.
There you can see Viale ask the last question of the interview, focused on the controversy for the $ Libra case, which resulted in an opinion exchange with the head of state.
Source: Ambito
