A major player behind the Libra token boasts about buying access to the inner circle of Argentine president Javier Milei before the memecoin scandal and crash.
In text messages reviewed by CoinDesk, Hayden Davis, CEO of Kelsier Ventures, claimed he could “control” Milei for paying for the payments he made to Karina Milei, a powerful figure in Milei’s government, no longer mention the president’s brother.
“I control n ****,” Davis claimed in text messages from mid -December, and added, “I send $$ to his brother and he signed whatever I say and does what I want.”
Karina Milei’s office did not respond to a request for comment. Davis did not respond to many requests for the comment.
It is unclear whether any money was exchanged between the inner circle of Davis and Milei in advance of the Libra launch.
Davis ‘claims’ December adds a new scale to an anti-corrupt investigation that the office of the Argentina president opened to Javier Milei, which, in Feb.
But the biggest winner from the launch of Solana -based Memecoin is Davis and Kelsier Ventures. The wallets controlled by the entities were reached by more than $ 100 million in the first hours of Libra, when it climbed to $ 5 and then crashed more than 95%, wiping millions of dollars of speculating investment.
Opposition leaders in Argentina threatened to call for a Impeachment testing In the incident, combined with the local press, “Critpogate.” The scandal weighed in the Argentina’s stock market and pushed Milei into “Control Control,” said an observer in the country’s crypto space.
In December text messages, Davis claimed he would get Milei to advance social media adventures. Milei’s tweet about Libra two months later. When he is The tweet was removed Only five hours later-and after the on-chain sleuths discovered the evidence of the shady deal-Libra’s price crashed.
