Aurélien Michel, son of former Breton footballer Claude Michel, was arrested in New York. He was prosecuted for cryptocurrency fraud, currently valued at $3 million. As demonstrated by the now famous crypto-detective ZachXBT, Aurélien Michel is allegedly involved in other scams. He can challenge the throw to the carpet, the evidence is there: he risks 20 years in prison and a fine, unless he denounces his accomplices?
Aurélien Michel is a young Breton who lived in United Arab Emirates. He created the collection NFT Mutant Ape Planet and defrauded his community of $2.9 million. He wasn’t the only one pulling the strings, as several network investigators have shown. The investigations have just begun.
Aurélien Michel sends funds to his KYC wallet!
In January 2022, Aurélien Michel took advantage of the trend of monkey NFTs (apes) to launch, with accomplices, Mutant ape planet. 9999 NFTs at 0.15 Eth each. A month later, about 70% of the collection was sold for 1020 Eth ($2,921,980).
February 2022: Announces the pull carpet to his community and sends ETH to different wallets multiple times. Since 1020, 500 ETH (about $1,436,982) has been sent to Cash tornado and then to his personal wallet on Binance. And yes, the wallet with your identity card, email, telephone.
Trip to the USA and arrest
Aurélien Michel applies for a US visa in December 2021 (Electronic System for Travel Authorization, “ESTA”) and uses the same phone number and emails as Binance (the same as his account Chirping)! To simplify the investigators’ task, Aurélien Michel did not even hide his IP address. The American authorities made the connections quickly and only had to go and pick up Aurélien Michel at the airport. He faces up to 20 years in prison. Some “web sleuths” have spotted other scams related to this team, and according to the special agent Kayla’s blades, our former Breton footballer would have as many as 6 accomplices. A young team based in Dubai.
On the trail of Aurélien Michel and his accomplices
Thanks to the famous @zachxbt, detective 2D, who has already helped the French police arrest scammers, we know that Aurélien has accomplices in Dubai. He is also allegedly involved in other NFT collection scams. Moda Ape Nft or again Crazy Camel Club founded with his partner @gambergefc (Soulaymane Mahzoul) who was also involved in many shots on the mat. Himself in connection with Laurent Correia, instigator of the carpet pulls NFT, the latter preferring dogs to monkeys and camels.
Irradiated radish, a French-speaking detective, had already spoken a year ago about this famous Gamberge who officiated in drop shipping. Around the 18th minute, he also talks about this NFT collection of camels.
You can consult the addresses ETH used for Aurélien pull pulls.
All these NFT collections of monkeys, dogs and other camels are riding the wave of the Mutant collection ape Yacht Club: They just seem to extract money, over and over again. With the arrest of Aurélien Michel in the United States, perhaps things will finally change. It remains to be seen whether the Dubai authorities will cooperate, which appears to be the case. Indeed, they communicated Aurélien Michel’s connection IP addresses without difficulty. We look forward to the continuation of a series of arrests which is undoubtedly only just beginning.
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Subprime, financial crises, runaway inflation, tax havens… Bitcoin was designed for greater transparency and perhaps to finally change that. I try to understand this new environment and try to explain it to myself. The road is undoubtedly long, but it is worth it.