SANTO DOMINGO.-Some 20 people who sued Jairo González, accused of committing a million-dollar scam, using cryptocurrencies through the company Harvest Group & Associates, They would be willing to reach an agreement with the defendant.
This was reported by the plaintiffs’ lawyers, Wascar Olmos and Miguel de León, who indicated that through this negotiation they could withdraw the submission filed against González.
Jairo was arrested early this Monday morning in a villa in Jarabacoa, La Vega and it is expected that in the next few hours a measure of coercion will be known.
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The Public Ministry began investigating this case after more than 30 people denounced that they were victims of fraud for more than RD$100 million, after allegedly investing large sums of money in the company trading and investment in the stock market and cryptocurrencies.
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A team from the General Directorate of Persecution of the Public Ministry carried out the investigations after receiving the complaints against González Durán, who through his company Harvest Trading Cap, captured money from people with the promise of investing it in million-dollar companies.
However, González Durán invested in cryptocurrencies the money he obtained from people he called investors.
According to the information posted on the website of the company Harvest Trading Cap, it says that Jairo Joel González Durán is a professional trader, financial analyst, economist and expert in international negotiations, Mini MBA in Stock Market Analysis, BlockChain Technology and Cryptocurrencies.
In addition, he is CEO of Harvest Trading Cap SR, and of Harvest Trading Cap Academy, Dominican Republic. In his Linkedin account, he says that 2020 was when he developed the Harvest Coin project, under a complete Blockchain ecosystem, which includes Ico, Exchange, Wallet, NFT Marketplace, Token and Broker.
González Durán, a member of the Iglesia de Dios Central in Los Alcarrizos, which was dedicated to the Uber taxi service, now owns a company that he allegedly used to defraud dozens of people.
Other scam cases
In recent years in the country, scams through trading and cryptocurrencies (virtual currencies) have increased, as happened last year with Wilkin García Peguero (Mantequilla), who is in prison after being accused of defrauding some 600 people for the sum of RD $100 million, through his company 3.14 Inversiones.
In 2018, through the companies Money Free and My Trade Coin, created by the Brazilian Andre Feitosa, they used cryptocurrencies to make their transactions, a tool prohibited by the country’s monetary authorities.
Feitosa promised investors who deposited large sums of money to the virtual business that a period of 15 days would double the amount invested, for which these people became victims of scams.
Feitosa was implicated in the case of Telexfree, in 2014, a company also of Brazilian origin that had a presence in various parts of the world and in the Dominican Republic it is believed that 145,000 Dominicans invested significant sums that they were ultimately unable to recover.
