US EditionLibra Evidence Sparks Fresh Questions Over President Milei’s Role
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The $LIBRA Token Implosion: How Argentina’s President Milei Got Tangled in a Crypto Scandal That Won’t Die
On a Friday evening in mid-February, Argentine President Javier Milei did something unusual even by his standards. He posted a promotion on social media for a cryptocurrency token called $LIBRA, telling his millions of followers it would support small businesses and entrepreneurs in Argentina. Within hours, the token’s market capitalization surged past $4 billion. Then it collapsed. Insiders had already cashed out. Ordinary investors — many of t…
Although the President repeatedly denied any link, the U.S. daily reports that there were seven phone calls between libertarian president and businessman Mauricio Novelli on the night of the token launch.
Telephone records from the Argentine judicial investigation, obtained by the New York Times and published on 6 April 2026, reveal that President Javier Milei made seven calls with the entrepreneur Mauricio Novelli on the night of 14 February 2025, a few hours before and after having published on X the promotion of the memecoin $LIBRA. A discovery that contradicts the official version of the president... The article Scandale $LIBRA: new revelatio…
Court documents cast doubt on the Argentine president's claims that he had no connection to the launch of the cryptocurrency Libra. Argentine President Javier Milei launched a cryptocurrency last year whose value skyrocketed and then plummeted just as quickly, costing investors millions of dollars and triggering a scandal and investigation. Milei said he was simply highlighting a private company and had no connection to the digital currency call…
“In the minutes before, according to the records of incoming and outgoing calls, there is a round trip between Mauricio Novelli, one of the protagonists of the $Libra case, and the president of the Nation who even arrives at the previous minute of the president’s post, for after the post to communicate again a couple of more occasions,” said Hugo Alconada Mon in conversation with the cycle of Jonatan Viale by Radio Rivadavia. In the radio dialog…
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