{"id":11394,"date":"2024-03-07T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/founder-of-braiscompany-arrested-in-argentina-for-alleged-ponzi-scheme\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T15:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T13:50:00","slug":"founder-of-braiscompany-arrested-in-argentina-for-alleged-ponzi-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/founder-of-braiscompany-arrested-in-argentina-for-alleged-ponzi-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder of Braiscompany Arrested in Argentina for Alleged Ponzi Scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Braiscompany, Inacio Da Silva Neto, and his wife, Farias Campos, have been arrested in Argentina for allegedly running a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded Brazilian investors of $400 million, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/mpost.io\/braiscompany-founder-arrested-in-argentina-for-operating-alleged-400m-crypto-ponzi-scheme\/\">Metaverse Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Da Silva Neto on charges of money laundering and crimes against the financial system and capital market.<\/p>\n<p>In February, the couple was convicted in absentia. The Braiscompany founder was sentenced to 88 years and seven months, while Farias Campos received a sentence of 61 years and eleven months.<\/p>\n<p>This followed an investigation into the couple&#8217;s purchases and payments in Argentina using fictitious names.<\/p>\n<p>They are currently in custody awaiting an extradition order to Brazil for trial and imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p>The publication noted that a previously unnamed individual connected to the Braiscompany case was also extradited from Argentina to Brazil. This person was suspected of acting as a liaison between the organization and other legal entities.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in 2023, Binance was suspected of facilitating the movement of assets for the Ever Operations and Investments and Braiscompany schemes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of Braiscompany, Inacio Da Silva Neto, and his wife, Farias Campos, have been arrested in Argentina for allegedly running a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded Brazilian investors of $400 million, according to Metaverse Post. In 2023, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for Da Silva Neto on charges of money laundering and crimes against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[908,1437,1154,1163],"class_list":["post-11394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-argentina","tag-brazil","tag-crimes","tag-ponzi-schemes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}