A 50-year-old Las Vegas resident was charged with operating a cryptocurrency scam that netted him $45 million and 39 brand-new Teslas, among other things.
On Wednesday, a federal grand jury indicted Neil Suresh Chandran on charges that he had scammed more than 10,000 people out of their money since June 2018. To persuade the victims to send him their money, Chandran allegedly told them that one of his five cryptocurrency and virtual reality businesses “was about to be purchased by a consortium of wealthy buyers and thereby yield his investors extremely high returns.”
In an alleged email from Chandran, he reportedly claimed that an investment of $88,000 would yield a $2 trillion return. Chandran is accused of spending a large amount of money, which is included in the indictment.
The alleged fraud appears to have involved claims about Elon Musk, who is referred to in the indictment as “Billionaire 2” and the “founder and CEO of an electric car company,” as well as Jeff Bezos, the...
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