UPDATE (Feb. 18, 2025, 23:55 UTC): This article has been updated with comment from Hayden Davis. He denies making payments to President Milei or his sister.
A key player behind the Libra token bragged about buying access to Argentine President Javier Milei’s inner circle months before the memecoin’s scandalous launch and crash.
In text messages reviewed by CoinDesk, Hayden Davis, CEO of Kelsier Ventures, claimed he could “control” Milei because of payments he had been making to Karina Milei, a powerful figure in Milei’s government, not to mention the president’s sister.
“I control that n****,” Davis claimed in text messages from mid-December, adding, “I send $$ to his sister and he signs whatever I say and does what I want.”
Following the publication of this article, Michael Padovano, a spokesperson for Davis, told CoinDesk that Davis does not recall sending such a message, and has no record on his phone of sending it.
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