BitClub Network fraudster freed after $722m case dropped following Washington pressure

The key figure behind the BitClub Network fraud, which cheated investors out of more than $722 million, has been freed after prosecutors abruptly dropped the case. In private messages he had called his victims "idiots and sheep." According to US media reports, the dismissal came on orders from the top of the Department of Justice, with lawyers linked to Donald Trump and political lobbying in the background.

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