• A doc recovered from the telephone of crypto lobbyist Mauricio Novelli outlines an alleged $5 million fee association tied to Argentine President Javier Milei’s promotion of the Libra memecoin. 
  • The doc—created days earlier than Milei’s publish in regards to the token—particulars staged funds primarily based on public endorsements of LIBRA and getting into an advisory cope with Hayden Davis.
  • Argentinian investigators additionally uncovered name information that counsel coordinated communication and makes an attempt to cowl up Milei’s involvement amongst key figures across the time of the launch.

Recordsdata uncovered by forensic computing consultants inside Argentina’s Public Prosecutor’s Workplace seem to have revealed a $5 million fee settlement between Hayden Davis and Argentine President Javier Milei to advertise the $LIBRA crypto undertaking.

A report revealed March 14 by Argentine information outlet El Destape stated federal investigators had uncovered a file, created days earlier than the pump-and-dump fiasco, that refers to an settlement “mentioned with H” to offer:

  • US$1.5 million in liquid tokens or money as an advance.
  • US$1.5 million in liquid tokens or money as soon as Milei tweets that Hayden Davis/Kelsier Ventures was his advisor.
  • US$2 million in tokens or money after a contract was signed in-person with Milei for “blockchain/AI consulting for the Argentine authorities”.

The high-profile $LIBRA rug-pull induced a nationwide scandal in Argentina and resulted in requires Milei’s impeachment. A prison investigation was launched into the rip-off, which is being led by Argentine federal prosecutor Eduardo Taiano. 

The incriminating doc was allegedly discovered on units seized from crypto lobbyist Mauricio Novelli, by way of knowledgeable evaluation by Argentina’s Directorate of Technological Assist for Legal Investigations (DATIP). 

It contradicts Milei’s declare that he’d posted about $LIBRA with no information of the small print of the undertaking and had merely shared it in help of a “personal enterprise with which I clearly don’t have any connection in anyway.”

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Name and message logs had been additionally detected on Novelli’s units, which point out he performed a key function in facilitating communications between $LIBRA’s promoters and Milei earlier than and through the token’s spectacular collapse. 

The DATIP report indicates Novelli was possible within the US with Hayden Davis on the time, and exchanged a number of calls with President Milei and his sister Karina Milei within the minutes earlier than and after Milei first tweeted in regards to the $LIBRA coin on February 14, 2025. 

Inside hours of the President’s publish on X, $LIBRA had soared to a market worth of US$4.5 billion (AU$6.4 billion) — however crashed quickly after when wallets linked to undertaking insiders offered off over US$100 million (AU$142 million) value of tokens. 

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The uncovered information present that, because the drama unfolded, Novelli had a number of exchanges with contacts together with Julián Legislation Agency, Julian Peh from KIP Protocol, and political guide Santiago Caputo.

El Destape reporters posit: “Every part signifies that some form of maneuver to comprise the scandal was being orchestrated throughout this back-and-forth.”

Lending weight to that declare, the decision logs present that 11 minutes following an trade between Peh and Novelli, Kip Protocol issued a press release calling Libra successful and stating, “We need to make clear that President Milei was not and isn’t concerned in any manner within the improvement of the undertaking, which is completely personal.” 

Peh told The New York Instances final 12 months that Novelli had offered him with the precise textual content to make use of. Milei issued a press release within the wake of $LIBRA’s collapse, calling the token a KIP Protocol undertaking that was pitched to him by Julian Peh, and that Peh had launched him to Hayden Davis — claims Peh denies.

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