1/6 Exclusive: there's a secret behind the founding of #Bitfinex and #Tether, a secret that links Italian #cryptocurrency guru Giancarlo #Devasini and Dutchman Ludovicus Jan van der Velde to Europe's Vat fraud king. #Thread by @nicolaborzi, @StefanoVergine and @EICnetwork
2/6 Devasini and van der Velde are considered the managers who created #Tether from scratch. But who is behind #Tether? ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/art…
3/6 Giancarlo #Devasini, the world's most famous Italian in the field of #cryptocurrency, has a judicial stain in his career dating back to 1996 and an additional one dated 2007. We told you about it here bit.ly/3Ts28zm
4/6 Devasini claims to have made a fortune from the divestment of his IT companies, instead the companies burned down and then failed ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/art…
5/6 Returning to today: #Devasini and van der Velde have in common that they ran companies that did business with Gennaro "Rino" Platone: the king of the biggest VAT scams in the Old World.
6/6 But what's this got to do with a tens of millions in VAT fraud? The answer lies in the so-called "Operation Medina": the largest carousel fraud in Spanish history ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/art…
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