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> Almost forgot, the guy who runs their banking partner, Deltec Ahh, Deltec. At the start of 2021, according to their website, it was a 55 year old bank. By th
by FireBeyond 4y ago
> Almost forgot, the guy who runs their banking partner, Deltec
Ahh, Deltec. At the start of 2021, according to their website, it was a 55 year old bank. By the end, it was a 70 year old bank!
Their "Deputy CEO" gave a hilariously inept interview from his gaming rig. Their 33 year old Deputy CEO, who by his LinkedIn claimed to have graduated HEC Lausanne in Switzerland with a Master of Science at the age 15... celebrating his graduation by immediately being named Professor of Finance at a university in Lebanon. While dividing his spare time between running hedge funds in Switzerland and uhh... Jacksonville, FL.
The name of his fund? Indepedance [sic] Weath [sic] Management. Yeah...
In this hilariously inept interview, he claimed that people's claims about Deltec's money movements being several times larger than all the banking in their country was due to them misunderstanding the country's two banking licenses, the names of which he "couldn't remember right now" (the Deputy CEO of a bank who can't remember the name of the banking licenses), and he "wasn't sure which one they had, but they might have both".
Once the ridicule and all this started piling on, within 24 hours, he was removed from the bank's website leadership page. When people pointed out how suspicious that looked, he was -re-added-.
The bank then deleted the company's entire website and replaced it with a minimally edited WordPress site, where most of the links and buttons were non-functional and remained so for months thereafter.
I mean fuck it, if the cryptobros want to look at all that and say "seems legit to me", alright, let em.