{"id":30890,"date":"2025-06-09T09:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30890"},"modified":"2025-06-09T09:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T09:46:51","slug":"argentine-president-milei-cleared-of-misconduct-over-libra-promotion-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30890","title":{"rendered":"Argentine President Milei Cleared of Misconduct Over LIBRA Promotion: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Argentine President Javier Milei was cleared of wrongdoing over his promotion of the LIBRA memecoin in February, <a href=\"https:\/\/buenosairesherald.com\/politics\/anti-corruption-office-clears-milei-of-ethical-misconduct-in-libra-cryptoscandal\">the Buenos Aires Herald reported on Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A resolution issued Friday by the country&#8217;s anti-corruption office argued that the president was speaking &#8220;as an economist and not a public official,&#8221; when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/02\/16\/argentina-opposition-threatens-milei-with-impeachment-over-libra-token-controversy-reuters\">shared news of LIBRA<\/a> on X.<\/p>\n<p>The president&#8217;s personal account &#8220;was created long before he was elected country president, and even before the beginning of his previous term as deputy,&#8221; according to the resolution, signed by Alejandro Melik, the head of the country&#8217;s anti-corruption office. <\/p>\n<p>Milei&#8217;s post about the Solana-based memecoin promoted it as a project designed to help small and medium-sized Argentine companies raise capital. LIBRA surged to a market capitalization of around $4.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>He deleted the post only hours later, saying that he had not been aware of the details of the project when he promoted it. In the ensuing sell-off, LIBRA crashed by 90%, wiping out over $4 billion in value. <\/p>\n<p>On-chain data from Nansen showed that 86% of traders <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/02\/20\/libra-memecoin-fiasco-destroyed-usd251m-in-investor-wealth-research-shows\">lost a total of $251 million<\/a>, with the remainder securing $180 million in profits. <\/p>\n<p>To make matters worse, it was revealed Libra&#8217;s co-creator Hayden Davis bragged in text messages about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/02\/18\/libra-token-s-co-creator-bragged-of-sending-money-to-argentine-president-milei-s-sister\">his influence over Milei because of payments he had been making to Karina Milei<\/a>, the president&#8217;s sister and a powerful figure in his government.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/05\/20\/milei-closes-down-libra-investigative-unit-after-it-shares-findings-with-prosecutors\">Milei Closes Down LIBRA Investigative Unit After It Shares Findings With Prosecutors<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argentine President Javier Milei was cleared of wrongdoing over his promotion of the LIBRA memecoin in February, the Buenos Aires Herald reported on Saturday. A resolution issued Friday by the country&#8217;s anti-corruption office argued that the president was speaking &#8220;as an economist and not a public official,&#8221; when he shared news of LIBRA on X. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-30890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}