Publicly exposed by the media and public denunciations of recent days, the organizers of the pyramid scheme of alleged cryptocurrency investment in Albania have closed large communication groups and have dispersed into tight organizational cells, mainly on Telegram.
VoxNews secured access to and content of communications in one of them on Telegram with only 17 members. The group is called 'TXEX Group Alert' and its founder identifies himself with the nickname 'Yes I Am', while among the members there is no shortage of ironic pseudonyms, such as that of the user with the nickname 'Maksude Kadena', the name of the founder and owner of the pyramid firm 'Sudja', which expanded the financial fraud scheme mainly in Tirana in the years 1993-1997.
In the same group, a Telegram user who identifies himself with a Latin American name denounces a character named Kevin Dove, who according to him has benefited from 400 thousand euros within 20 days from the fraud scheme.
According to this complaint and given the fact that the name 'Kevin' is also mentioned by the group's founder, it is suspected that Kevin Dove is either the organizer, or at least one of the contacts of the persons responsible for spreading the financial fraud scheme in our country.
Communications between the members and founders of this group imply that they are aware that the fraud scheme will not last long and that those who are first involved in it will also be the biggest beneficiaries.
In addition, the group's founder has also been updated with the ongoing public denunciations of these schemes, as others ask if it is true that the XUEX platform has also blocked the withdrawal of money, as stated by Socialist MP Erion Braçe.
In Albania, it is believed that there are over 6,000 victims of this fraud scheme, where each participant has invested at least 1,000 euros. The figure is indirectly confirmed by the number of members of the now closed Telegram group 'TXEX Albania', which included over 10,000 of them.
The same scheme has also spread to Romania and Italy, but there is still no figure for its real size in these two countries.
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