US EditionFrancos defends Milei's involvement in $LIBRA cryptofiasco
- On Tuesday, April 29, 2025, Argentine Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos defended President Javier Milei before Congress in Buenos Aires against involvement in the $Libra cryptocurrency controversy.
- Francos responded to allegations after opposition lawmakers highlighted Milei’s and his sister Karina’s meetings with $Libra creators and questioned the absence of Justice and Economy ministers from hearings.
- Francos affirmed Milei had no connection to $Libra, described the project as legitimate to support small businesses, and accused Congress of seeking to create a media court by overstepping its authority.
- He rejected allegations about payments to Karina Milei, urging that claims should not rely solely on media reports and insisting that any proof should be presented through legal channels, while highlighting the importance of respecting the separation of powers.
- Francos’s defense and refusal to link Milei to $Libra suggest political tensions persist, while Justice and Economy ministers face rescheduled questioning on May 14.
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Francos defends Milei's involvement in $LIBRA cryptofiasco
Argentine Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos denied before Congress Tuesday any involvement on the part of President Javier Milei in the $Libra cryptofiasco, saying the head of State had no link to the project and there was no state coordination or economic benefit.
Javier Milei did not succeed in burying the $Libra scandal. The opposition in Congress this Tuesday put a long interpellation on the matter to the head of ministers, Guillermo Francos, and managed to return the issue to the public agenda. Francos held fast to the argument that Milei has maintained since promoting a cryptocurrency on his social networks that turned out to be a scam: “The president merely spread information that was public”; “the …
This Tuesday afternoon three of the most important officials of the government of the Argentine president, Javier Milei , were summoned to declare in the Congress in order to give explanations for the case $LIBRA the cyberstafa controversy that last February 14 was spread by the president on his own social networks. However, only one of them has appeared in the Parliament, where he has read a written text and answered questions. It is the Chief …
The Argentine chief of staff, Guillermo Francos, said on Tuesday that President Javier Milei “does not maintain or maintain any link with the project” of $LIBRA, in an interpellation before Congress for the cryptocurrency that collapsed after being promoted by the trans-Andean president.The declarations occurred in the framework of an investigation into the collapse on February 14 of the cryptocurrency that Milei published in his account in X in…
With 129 legislators, the opposition opened the Chamber of Deputies to interrogate the Chief of Staff, Guillermo Francos, for the promotion of the cryptocurrency $LIBRA made by President Javier Milei. The case of the cryptoactive is also investigated in national and international justice as an alleged scam. Although four officials were cited, only one will attend. Roberto Silva, holder of the National Securities Commission (CNV), will excuse him…
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