If the name “Aiden Pleterski” doesn’t automatically inspire feelings of rage and revulsion within you, the 23-year-old Ontario fraudster’s self-given alias — the “crytpo king” — might.
And if all you feel upon reading that term is mild curiosity or indifference, you should read on and learn about how a cocksure liar from Whitby, Ontario, bilked more than $25 million out of at least 119 people with a bogus cryptocurrency investment scheme.
Pleterski first hit (legitimate) news headlines in September after CBC Toronto revealed that some $2 million in assets were seized from the young man as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.
He lost a Lamborghini, two McLarens and two BMWs at the time, but the value on those cars wasn’t even close to the $35 million he is said to have swindled through his company, AP Private Equity Limited, for “cryptocurrency and foreign exchange investments” in 2021 and early 2022.
Creditors are trying to determine what happened to the $35 million given to the self-proclaimed “crypto king” of Whitby, who is reported to own some 13 luxury cars. Image via Aiden Pleterski/Instagram.
Investigation Counsel PC, a Toronto law firm specializing in fraud recovery, announced in August that “our firm has received numerous complaints about a foreign exchange investment scheme operated by Aiden Pleterski and his company AP Private Equity Ltd.”
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