Police arrest alleged mastermind of $722 million Bitcoin Ponzi scheme

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In brief

 - Russ Medlin, the suspected head of an alleged multi-million-dollar Bitcoin Ponzi, BitClub, was arrested in Indonesia.
 - Russ Medlin has been arrested in Indonesia on sex charges

The local authorities in Jakarta arrested Medlin, where three underage girls who were seen leaving Medlin's apartment. The girls confessed that they were part of an alleged child prostitution ring, but what triggered the news headlines was the finding of an international arrest warrant for his alleged role in the suspected Bitcoin Ponzi scheme:

He is a suspect for Bitcoin investment fraud. He is suspected to have swindled $722 million. In the US, he is also a recidivist for pedophilia. He has been convicted twice for that," Jakarta police spokesman Yusri Yunus said during a press conference on Tuesday.

BitClub was closed in 2019 after accusing four of its founding members. The identity of the fifth suspect (now believed to be Medlin) remained.

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[Lucius]

Not only is he a scammer, but he is also a pedophile who has so far been very successful in hiding from the eyes of the authorities. Apparently someone betrayed him for the right price, or maybe he touched the wrong child so the local authorities want to get rid of him in a very elegant way by extraditing him to the USA. Such people should be imprisoned for life, but if the article is to be believed, he will face a maximum of 15 years in prison, which means that he may be out in 10 years or even sooner.

What caught my eye was the following :

BitClub positioned itself as a cryptocurrency investment scheme, duping alleged victims into buying hashing power in return for a share in Bitcoin mining profits. Messages shared between the founders referred to investors as "sheep," noting that they were building BitClub "on the backs of idiots."

I hope he meets some of these sheep and idiots in prison to thank him personally.

[gentlemand]

I remember this being pushed on a FIRE Youtube channel and said it was a ponzi then. Funnily enough the comment didn't last very long.

Interesting how sexual deviance often seems to go hand in hand with financial deviance. The Mintpal scammer was a rapist too. And then there's our Calvin with his unusually aged chickens.

I doubt he's going to get much of a sentence. They rarely do. Hope springs eternal all the same.

[coolcoinz]

I remember this being pushed on a FIRE Youtube channel and said it was a ponzi then. Funnily enough the comment didn't last very long.

Interesting how sexual deviance often seems to go hand in hand with financial deviance. The Mintpal scammer was a rapist too. And then there's our Calvin with his unusually aged chickens.

I doubt he's going to get much of a sentence. They rarely do. Hope springs eternal all the same.

You need to have no morality to run scams and this is one of the things things you cannot switch on and off. If he can lie with ease and sleep well knowing he stole some people's life savings there's not much he wouldn't do.
Those crypto scammers often get low sentences but there are exceptions, like:

Robert Farkas, the founder of cryptocurrency firm Centra Tech, which raised more than $25 million from its initial coin offering scam, pled guilty in a federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday.
The official statement accused Farkas of conspiring to commit securities and wire fraud and ordered a sentence between 70 to 87 months and a fine up to $250,000. The date of the sentence is yet to be determined.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/crypto-founder-sentenced-to-seven-years-in-prison-for-25-million-scam

I wonder if they'll ever get those two behind FuturoCoin. They run a ponzi for years and recently fled using previously purchased Gambian diplomatic passports...

[cheezcarls]

I've seen some BitClub-related ads for the past few months being promoted on Facebook. Even some Facebook contacts of mine had joined and promote BitClub whenever they like. I did warned them about it, but they choose to ignore my advice and keep inviting people to join BitClub.

There are even some strangers out there who had the guts to bombard my messenger with BitClub ads and inviting me to join. They can level up their marketing skills, but they can't easily penetrate my mind to possibly join them. Ain't a guy who ends up joining ponzi schemes like that.

It looks like they have learned their lesson after this news came out. Sorry for those who were ended up being scammed by this ponzi scheme.

[stompix]

I've seen some BitClub-related ads for the past few months being promoted on Facebook. Even some Facebook contacts of mine had joined and promote BitClub whenever they like.
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It looks like they have learned their lesson after this news came out. Sorry for those who were ended up being scammed by this ponzi scheme.

How did you get ads for this when it was shut down in December 2019, when 3 of them were arrested at that time and the website went offline?
http://www.courtcasedocs.com/Case%20Files/19-CR-00877-CCC/index.html
https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/page/file/1224881/download

How could they have joined this scheme?

I think you're mistaken this scheme for another, maybe with a similar name.

[Saisher]

I've seen some BitClub-related ads for the past few months being promoted on Facebook. Even some Facebook contacts of mine had joined and promote BitClub whenever they like. I did warned them about it, but they choose to ignore my advice and keep inviting people to join BitClub.

There are even some strangers out there who had the guts to bombard my messenger with BitClub ads and inviting me to join. They can level up their marketing skills, but they can't easily penetrate my mind to possibly join them. Ain't a guy who ends up joining ponzi schemes like that.

It looks like they have learned their lesson after this news came out. Sorry for those who were ended up being scammed by this ponzi scheme.

They cannot stopped promoting a Ponzi scheme once they already received profit or commissions coming from their referrals, they need to keep going even blindly just to get the money coming in so their referrals and them selves can receive referrals commissions no way to go back for them even if they realize that they are promoting a Ponzi scheme.

[smyslov]

In brief

 - Russ Medlin, the suspected head of an alleged multi-million-dollar Bitcoin Ponzi, BitClub, was arrested in Indonesia.
 - Russ Medlin has been arrested in Indonesia on sex charges

The local authorities in Jakarta arrested Medlin, where three underage girls who were seen leaving Medlin's apartment. The girls confessed that they were part of an alleged child prostitution ring, but what triggered the news headlines was the finding of an international arrest warrant for his alleged role in the suspected Bitcoin Ponzi scheme:

This is where he spend the money he collected from their Ponzi scheme hiring or buying girls for pleasure, dirty money begets dirty money glad that he is caught, I bet he is hoping from one country to another to escape prosecution because he has a pending international warrant of arrest and he was eventually caught but from sex charges.