Montenegro prime minister reportedly an early investor in defunct Terraform Labs

Montenegro’s Prime Minister Milojko Spajić was an aboriginal capitalist successful the failed Terra Luna coin and whitethorn person mislaid millions to the ecosystem’s implosion successful 2022, according to caller tribunal documents filed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

Before becoming premier minister, Spajić was a crypto entrepreneur. In April 2018, conscionable earlier Terraform Labs launched successful Singapore, helium invested $75,000 successful the company, making him the 16th of 81 aboriginal investors. For his investment, helium received 750,000 LUNA tokens astatine 10 cents each.

At its peak, LUNA’s worth soared to $199 per token earlier crashing successful 2022. This could mean Spajić mislaid implicit $140 cardinal during this collapse. However, helium apt sold immoderate of his holdings and profited earlier the collapse.

This revelation is astonishing since Spajić has ne'er claimed to beryllium a unfortunate of the LUNA crash. In erstwhile statements, helium mentioned that a institution helium worked for was defrauded of $75,000, not his investment.

“Do Kwon is simply a swindler who defrauded millions, including my friends and the institution I worked for, which invested successful this task successful aboriginal 2018,” Spajić said.

Terraform Labs is down the algorithmic UST stablecoin, whose illness erased astir $40 cardinal from the crypto market.

This find adds a caller twist to the ineligible troubles of Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon successful Montenegro. Kwon was convicted and sentenced for utilizing a forged passport and is awaiting extradition to either the US oregon South Korea.

Meanwhile, Terraform Labs and Kwon person agreed to settee with the SEC for $4.47 billion. The institution volition cease operations, and Kwon volition beryllium permanently banned from the crypto industry. The institution CEO, Chris Amani, besides urged the community to instrumentality implicit the Terra blockchain, saying:

“The assemblage volition request to instrumentality implicit ownership of the chain. I judge determination are a mates teams and devs who privation to bash this and you should beryllium seeing accusation successful the forums soon.”

Terraform Labs is already successful bankruptcy, and with assets valued astatine astir $150 million, it is unclear however they volition rise the colony funds.

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