Within the framework of the preliminary investigation initiated yesterday by the Decentralized Fiscal Headquarters of San Nicolás, led by federal prosecutor Matías Di Lello, regarding alleged pyramid schemes that would affect thousands of residents of the Buenos Aires city of Saint Peter, The National Securities Commission (CNV) informed the prosecutor’s office that the financial platforms involved are not registered with that entity, which reinforces the hypothesis of the possible configuration of the crime of unauthorized financial intermediation.
The other possible federal crime under investigation is money laundering.
“As of the present date, “RainbowEX”; “Rainbow Exchange” and/or “Knight Consortium” “They are not registered in the Registry of Virtual Asset Service Providers -Legal Entities- and have not submitted a request for registration therein, in the terms of the provisions of CNV General Resolution No. 994/24,” states the CNV report sent to the prosecutor’s office, within the framework of one of the measures promoted by the MPF.
Preliminary investigation
The preliminary investigation, as reported by the tax headquarters, began ex officio yesterday. The purpose of the investigation is limited to elucidating the alleged criminal relevance of the events reported based on the recent publications of journalistic articles, which account for the possible configuration of maneuvers that would constitute the crime of unauthorized financial intermediation, in the terms of article 310 of the Penal Code, although possible money laundering is also analyzed as a hypothesis.
Until now, within the scope of federal jurisdiction, no formal complaints had been received in that jurisdiction nor victims identified.
In the journalistic articles, according to the prosecutor’s office, it is noted that approximately 20 percent of the population of San Pedro, province of Buenos Aires, would be operating with a “trading platform” called “RainbowEX” and/or “Knight Consortium.” , consisting of the investment of dollars in the purchase of cryptocurrencies – which would turn out to be non-existent -, where profits of between 1 and 2 percent daily in that foreign currency are promised.
Likewise, it states that the different publications indicate that the visible figure behind the platform is a woman known as “La China Ali” and/or “LY” and that through messages sent from the instant messaging application Telegram, it would be the responsible for sending “signals” daily to various users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies at a specific time.
It is also referred to as the object of the investigation that “Knight Consortium” would be the organization behind the platform in which a reference arises whose data is unknown, for the moment, although he would be a native of San Pedro.
That person would manage a group on the Telegram application, where they would share information about investments and/or operations on the platform.
“By virtue of the above, the initiation of this investigation has been ordered in order to establish the possible commission of public action crimes, the circumstances and responsibilities of which have yet to be determined,” clarified the Fiscal Headquarters in charge of Di Lello.
Measures
Among other evidentiary measures, the federal prosecutor arranged to officiate and request collaboration from different organizations.
Collaboration was requested from the Office of the Attorney General for Economic Crime and Money Laundering (Procelac); to the Specialized Cybercrime Fiscal Unit (UFECI); the Anti-Fraud Division of the Argentine Federal Police (PFA).
The CNV report, which already responded that RainbowEX and/or Knight Consortium is not registered – one of the requirements to operate – was one of the first measures requested. But letters were also sent to the San Pedro Fiscal Unit to find out if they registered complaints linked to the maneuvers described; and to the Municipality of San Pedro to inform if there are authorized street locations linked to RainbowEX and/or Knight Consortium, who are responsible, owners or those who have processed the authorizations.
Source: Ambito
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