The Anti -Corruption Office concluded that President Milei did not benefit from what happened with Libra.
The scandal has generated demands even in the United States.
Argentina’s Anti -Corruption Office concluded that President Javier Milei did not incur any violation of the Public Ethics Law for having disclosed the launch of the Libra cryptoactive through his personal account in the social network X last February.
According to the official resolution, which was published on June 5, Milei acted as a citizen and economist, without using his institutional role or the formal channels of the State. The organism argument That the president’s publications do not constitute acts of government, since they were made from a personal account that precedes both their current mandate and their previous performance as a deputy.
In that sense, It is emphasized that the personal social networks of officials should not be interpreted as official state meansunless expressly indicated.
The Libra case charged notoriety when the Token, associated with a narrative of support for small and medium enterprises, collapsed drastically after Milei mentioned it in their networks, when fears arose that it was a scam, given their removal of liquidity and accumulation of currencies in a few wallets. While the president quickly eliminated the publication later, the fall would have devoured the money of thousands of traders.
Despite the financial impact and the controversy it generated, The Anti -Corruption Office did not find evidence that the president benefited from the episode or had links with the people behind the projectincluding the firm Kelsier Ventures and developers Hayden Davis, Mauricio Novelli and Manuel Terrones Godoy.
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