The HV IJEX cryptocurrency investment platform closed its operations abruptly on Monday, April 14, after five days in which the withdrawals had been “suspended.” Promised a yield of up to 100% in a month and a minimum deposit of $ 300 was required to users
The Attorney General of the Republic, Tarek William Saab, announced on Thursday 17 an investigation against the administrators of the HV Ijex cryptocurrency investment platform for alleged scam.
“This investment system was structured as a Ponzi scheme and was subsequently disconnected generating patrimonial damage to multiplicity of victims, who made investments in cryptocurrencies,” said SAAB in A publication On Instagram.
The National Prosecutor 24 with competence in common crimes will be in charge of investigation against the administrators of the HV IJEX platform. The authorities did not offer details about the amount of affected or the amount of the patrimonial damage.
The cryptocurrency investment platform closed its operations abruptly on Monday, April 14, after five days in which the withdrawals had been “suspended.” It promised a yield of up to 100% in a month and a minimum deposit of $ 300 was required to users.
After having suspended “retreats” for 5 days, time in which they were obviously doing time to take everything they could.
HV Ijex turns off “operations” and scam thousands of Venezuelans and Colombians.
We noticed it for about 3 months, they laughed, … https://t.co/t8zwqzHUF0 pic.twitter.com/dnkei7ewuq
– cryptolawyer (@Ciptolawyer) April 15, 2025
According to their website, they were regulated in the United States and maintained operations in 52 countries, including Venezuela and several distributed in regions such as South America, North America, Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa.
Recently, the authorities They arrested six people for integrating a criminal band that operated through digital platforms under the modality of Phishing (identity theft) From the Táchira state. It is estimated that at least 10 million dollars were stolen from the account of the Bank of Venezuela or the homeland system.
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