Apparently, the founders of the South African investment platform AfriCrypt Amir and Raees Kajee stole $ 3.6 billion of depositors’ funds and went into hiding.
The AfriCrypt platform was launched in 2019 and attracted investors with huge returns – up to 10% per day. Thus, AfriCrypt attracted investments in the amount of 54 billion rand ($ 3.6 billion). On April 13, the site’s management sent a letter to investors informing them that the platform had been hacked. However, to all appearances, a classic exit scam was performed here.
According to representatives of the law firm Hanekom Attorneys, which was hired to protect the rights of AfriCrypt’s clients, several factors point to fraud. For example, in the letter, investors are urged not to contact law enforcement agencies, as “this will only slow down the process of refunding funds.” Lawyers note:
“We immediately found the call not to contact the police to be suspicious. In addition, AfriCrypt employees lost access to the platform a week before the alleged hack. ”
According to Hanekom Attorneys, the founders of AfriCrypt withdrew 69,000 BTC from the platform’s wallets and directed them to “various mixers and darknet markets, leading to fragmentation and untraceable funds.” Naturally, the Keiji brothers themselves are not available by phone. The lawyers sent an application to a special detachment of the South African police called “Hawks”.
Recently, the developers of the DeFi Polywhale Finance project sold all of their tokens, which brought down their price, announced the termination of the development of the project and disappeared.
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