Members of Gibraltar’s political and legal elite are among investors to have lost money in crypto trading group Globix, whose collapse has triggered an international hunt for a missing $43mn.
Former chief minister Sir Peter Caruana and leader of the opposition Keith Azopardi are among high-profile figures in the British Overseas Territory to have invested using the platform, which let investors use automated trading strategies to pick tokens, according to people familiar with the matter.
The names were then used by Globix sole shareholder and director Damian Carreras — a Gibraltarian — to promote the platform to other clients, two of the people said.