The founder of the now-defunct Oyster Protocol, Amir Burno Elmaani — aka. “Bruno Block” — received the maximum sentence of four years in prison for his $5.5 million tax evasion related to a crypto scheme.
31-year-old Oyster Protocol founder Amir Bruno Elmaani — aka “Bruno Block” — has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for tax evasion.Amir Bruno Elmaani, the 31-year-old founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency scheme Oyster Protocol has been handed the maximum sentence of four years in prison for tax evasion.on Oct.
However, under the nose of the Oyster Protocol’s team and investors, Elmaani secretly minted a mass of new PRL tokens and dumped them on the market for his own personal gain in October 2018. “I was aware that the counterparties who were buying these newly-minted PRL likely were not aware of my reopening of the smart contract and did not know that I had just substantially increased the total supply of PRL,” he added.
One home was purchased through a shell company, the other was under the names of two of Elmaani’s associates. He also “dealt substantially” in precious metals and
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