CEO Pleads Guilty in ‘$200M Bitcoin Fraud’ That Duped 90,000 Investors With Fake 3% Daily Returns

Ramil Ventura Palafox, the chief executive of a bitcoin investment and multi-level marketing firm, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering. According to federal authorities, he orchestrated a Ponzi scheme that defrauded more than 90,000 global investors. The 60-year-old dual citizen of the United States and the Philippines admitted in federal court that he used Praetorian Group International (PGI) to lure investors with false promises of daily profits. Between December 2019 and October 2021 ...