Arising on 9 months of being held in custody, considered one of Argentina’s prime OneCoin promoters nonetheless feigns ignorance in direction of the $4 billion Ponzi scheme.
Edgar Moreno (proper) was considered one of eight OneCoin promoters arrested by Argentinian authorities final December.
Moreno, a distinguished native radio and tv presenter, promoted OneCoin throughout Argentina and Panama “for at the least three years”.
As a well known native, Moreno’s arrest continues to generate native curiosity.
Searching for solutions, a reporter from Suquia secured an unique phone interview with Moreno.
In response to the straightforward query, “What occurred to you?”, Moreno replied;
Probably the most astonished particular person by my arrest was me.
Those that know me personally are conscious I’m a great man and an entrepreneur, not a felony or scammer.
How a lot Moreno made recruiting victims in OneCoin is unclear. The sufferer that sparked the felony investigation is alleging a private lack of €70,000 EUR.
When requested, “Has it ever crossed your thoughts that the cryptocurrency you have been selling might be false?”, Moreno dodged the query.
Look, there are at present fourteen defendants on this case.
I ask you: Are you able to think about going out to assemble fourteen folks with expertise, work, household, associates, roots, and no felony report to affiliate them with committing a criminal offense? It’s unimaginable!
Moreno took situation with the arrested being labeled ringleaders, stating “there are not any Indians, we’re all chiefs.”
Moreno went on to say considered one of complainants was “top-of-the-line sellers of (OneCoin) schooling packages”.
OneCoin bundled so-called “academic packages” with token funding. Regardless of being arrange as an supposed protect towards regulatory motion, the protection hasn’t labored in any OneCoin associated felony motion to this point.
Moreno continued to deflect onto the opposite complainant;
The opposite alleged sufferer is a policeman from the province of Córdoba from the Complicated Causes Crimes Unit, an important vendor of academic packages who obtained uninterested in publicly stating that ours was a authorized endeavor.
What a coincidence! the criticism for alleged fraud was reported and it was voluntarily submitted.
Moreno claims to have filed a solution to the felony case towards him however {that a} determination stays pending.
Once they arrested me, I imagined that in lower than 10 days my innocence was confirmed, however right here I’m, I’ve been ready for my state of affairs for nearly 9 months.
I opposed it and we appealed for preventive detention earlier than the Management Choose, however he by no means responded.
Given the dearth of response from the management decide, we determined to go to worldwide safety programs.
We introduced a request for Precautionary Measure earlier than the Inter-American Fee on Human Rights and we did the identical earlier than the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detentions.
Moreno and his co-defendants stay in custody because the felony case towards them continues.
Moreno maintains the preventive detention of OneCoin scammers in Argentina is an abuse of justice.