LIVE: The crisis by Milei’s cryptophawl is deepened

Falls in the bag and bonds in dollars

Wall Street does not operate by holiday, but the first financial “responses” are already felt to the cryptophaf scandal. Falls in the Buenos Aires bag and the bonds in dollars.

MERVAL. The Merval marks a decrease of 4.2%, although measured in dollars collapses 4.8%. The decreases in the leading actions are headed by South Gas Transporter (-6.2%), Transener (-6.2%), Edenor (-5.9%), Supervielle (-5.5%), Mirgor (-5.4%) and Supervielle Group (-4.8%).

Bonds In the “fixed income” segment, sovereign bonds in dollars lose, in a curve of up to 3.9% led by bonar 41.

Country risk. It is located around 675 basic points, waiting for international signals.

Urgent | They denounce Javier and Karina Milei before the FBI and the United States Department of Justice

A legal study that represents “investors” scammed with the memecoin $ Libra sent a “report of criminal operations” to US authorities. The complaint includes the president, his sister and the Argentine and foreign businessmen who motorized the scam.

Motorized by the Moyano & Associated Legal Study, specialized in cases of “international insolvency” and “financial fraud”, reached the offices of the Department of Justice and the FBI (Federal Investigation Office, for its acronym in English) a criminal complaint against Les Hermina Milei and other protagonists of the scandal that, it is calculated, cheated thousands of people for a figure close to US $ 100 million.

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The CGT asks for “explanation”, the CTA Political Judgment: we need active unemployment against all Milei’s scam

The CGT avoided using the word on everyone’s mouth and spoke of “reckless decision.” Ask for an “thorough explanation.” The CTAs were more critical but they limited themselves to asking for the political trial that promoted the UXP block, although it is now in doubt. They fall short. Only from below we can impose on the unions and centrals a strike and plan to fight this fraud and all that made Milei against the working people. It is time.

✍ Write Lucho Aguilar. Read here the full article.

Adorni was erased from social networks and suspended a press conference

The cryptovocero is silent since Friday, when his government headed a fraudulent maneuver with $ Libra. His role in the business was key.

As was known in the last hours, the unknown crypt businessman named Julian Peh was able to access the first president thanks to a management of the spokesman Manuel Adorni, endorsed by his boss, Karina Milei. Peh is the owner of the KIP Protocol company, which created $ Libra.

From that first contact it arose that Milei would participate as the main guest of the Forum Argentina roof that organized Peh at the Libertador Hotel. Adorni actively participated in that meeting held on October 19.

Also according to sources from the libertarian environment, the spokesman was the one who facilitated the entry of Hayden Davis. This is the US executive behind the $ LIBRA technological infrastructure, which had an audience with Milei on January 30.

Davis confirmed in the last hours the agreement with the Lla Government for the launch of the crypto.

It is not the only official involved in the scandal, but one of the main pillars of the government.

Urgent | The left presented an interpellation project to Milei

The Left Front claims that Milei of explanations in Congress and demands that they be transmitted by the National Chain.

The deputy of the PTS/Front of the Left, Nicolás del Caño, published on social networks the text of the project entered Monday to request the interpellation of President Javier Milei, following the scandal unleashed by the promotion, from his social networks, of a scam millionaire linked to the cryptocurrency business.

We have just presented this interpellation project to President Javier Milei to give explanations about the scam of $LIBRA. The population has the right to know. You have to investigate thoroughly. There can be no impunity. pic.twitter.com/erZRIZ9i1V

– Nicolas del Caño (@nicolasdelcano) February 17, 2025

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After the scam with $ Libra, Milei and their henchmen face more than one hundred criminal complaints

There are already 112 judicial presentations against the president, his sister, his spokesman, Agustín Laje and the owners of the “Memecoin” that on Friday left a set of “investors” scammed from a tweet from the mimous kitten of power. From accomplices to members of an illegal association, their behaviors are framed in many items of the Criminal Code.

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Step by step: how was the millionaire scam of the $ Libra cryptocurrency promoted by Javier Milei

The president had tweeted Friday night promoting a cryptocurrency created only minutes before insinuating that investing there would be to support Argentina. A few hours after its value collapsed, cheating 40 thousand wallets crypto for an amount that could reach 100 million dollars. Without Milei’s participation the scam could not have been completed.

Here you can read how the entire scam was armed.

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Defeat the government of the scam and adjustment in the streets: we reject the attacks, let’s prepare the path of the general strike

Javier Milei is part of a pyramidal scam with the $ Libra cryptocurrency. But that is the extreme expression of a government that is at the service of international financial capital and large local businessmen. This crisis is a support point for all sectors that want to face it. You have to develop the path of struggle and mobilization from below.

✍ Jonatan Ros and Eduardo Castilla write. Read the full article.

Does “markets” lose faith in Milei?

In Merval S&P, 16 % of business shareholding was destroyed in just over a month. The agreement with the IMF is delayed and adds nervousness in the “markets.” Finishing the “Cepo” is an eternal dream. The exchange delay does not exist, but that there is. Overvalued weight or devaluation: two tragic outputs for working majorities. The exit to the country’s decline can only come from the working class.

✍ Pablo Anino writes. Read here the full article.

Milei confirms that he met with the creators of $ Libra and says that he will “investigate” himself

This Saturday night, the president’s office issued a statement where he admits that there were meetings with the creators of the cryptocurrency that was part of the scam. In addition, it creates an agency within the presidency itself to “investigate.”

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Opinion: Olivos de Milei’s party?

The government was plunged into a deep crisis this Saturday. The president appeared linked to a financial scam. A blow to the presidential authority that can open the path of greater resistance in the streets.

✍ Eduardo Castilla writes. Read the full article.

Crypto scandal of the president: What did the left say?

The deputies and leaders the Left Front announced that they will present on Monday a resolution project in the Chamber of Deputies to “demand the immediate presence of the President of the Nation to provide verbal reports about scandalous promotion of a millionaire scam from their social networks that occurred Last Friday, February 14 “. Read more

We are going to ask for the interpellation of Milei in Congress, which is transmitted by the National Chain. It is a scandal that the president recognizes that he promoted a millionaire scam and then says he was not internalized. Is it going to face or are going to hide as the minister …

– Nicolas del Caño (@nicolasdelcano) February 15, 2025

The scams are not deleted with an apology order. Urgent research and even the last consequences, without caste privileges.

— Myriam Bregman (@myriambregman) February 15, 2025

A scam rarely seen. @Jmilei You must urgently give explanations at the Congress https://t.co/arjvd1kxro

— Christian Castillo (@chipicastillo) February 15, 2025