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In #MilesGuo's superseding indictment there is a list of bank accounts that were seized.
➤ $303mm from $SI (Silvergate)
➤ $4.6mm from #FVBank
➤ $299mm from #MercantileBankInternational
➤ $9.9mm from #USBank
#HamiltonOpportunityFund, #GETTR, and #Himalaya related names
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Here's the particulars and here's a link to the indictment. documentcloud.org/documents/2331…
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I hadn't heard of #MercantileBank. It's a "US bank with global access" located on crypto bro's second favorite island: Puerto Rico.
It caters to startups, specifically those in digital assets and other shady things like energy transition and "creative entrepeneurship". 🤔
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There's also a reference to "a particular bank in New York" controlled by "Relative-2". $SBNY?
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Indictment also strongly suggests these are not all of #MilesGuo / #MilesKwok / #GuoWengui's bank accounts.
In fact apparently he had 500 bank accounts¹ held in 80 different names in 3 countries:
1. USA
2. UAE
3. Bahamas
Know any other companies in Bahamas?
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Guo had a company called #Saraca that was some kind of #GTV holding company but maybe more interesting is the size and number of investors. He sold $452mm to 5,500 people for an average of $82,181 per investor.
Who are the investors? Seems kinda high for crypto degens...
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There is actually a law against making a thread about #MilesGuo without posting a video that demonstrates his immense skill as a cryptocurrency rapper, so here you go:
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It's also illegal to make a #MilesGuo thread and not remind everyone that #SteveBannon, AKA "the mad zealot who got Trump elected president", was arrested on Guo's boat.
Guo and Bannon made several cryptocurrencies together.
nbcnews.com/politics/justi…
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#MilesGuo also makes an appearance in the arrest of Fugees member #PrasMichel. Long story but apparently #JhoLow, Leo DiCaprio's friend who stole $4bn from Malaysia (and used some of it to fund The Wolf of Wall St) needed PRC protection.
bloomberg.com/features/2023-…
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Might as well put this here and remind everyone there are no coincidences.
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Just to make sure this thread has all the key points for those unfamiliar with this international man of mystery, here's #GeorgeSantos (yes, that George Santos) decrying the persecution of #MilesGuo on the floor of the Congress earlier today.
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Maybe worth pointing out that Miles Guo and Sam Bankman-Fried of #FTX fame have a few mutual friends in high places... #TonyBlair is one of them. Royal families in Arab states some others.
From the NYer piece on #MilesGuo, which is good👇
newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…
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I was a little surprised to find out that #MilesGuo bought a palatial estate in... New Jersey. And not just anywhere in New Jersey, but in Mahwah, which i knew was pretty suburban but never understood to be the kind of place a chinese "billionaire" might hang out.
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