According to the article published by El Far, Hanna is the political head of the implementation of Bitcoin and the Chivo wallet, while Rei owns the company in charge of managing the “support center” of the portfolio digital.
Venezuelans Sara Hanna and Lorenzo Rei Camejo lead the team that promotes the implementation of Bitcoin and the Chivo digital portfolio in El Salvador.
According to an investigation published by El Far, Sara Hanna is the head of policy and operations to launch the digital currency and the state portfolio; while Lorenzo Rey Camejo provides the technical part through his company which is responsible for managing the “support center” of the portfolio.
The Government has not released any official information about these people in charge of the Bitcoin implementation process.
This volatile cryptocurrency went into legal action on September 7 in the country amid a massive protest and rejection in the streets.
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The work of Llorenç Rei Camejo
El Far, citing anonymous government sources, claims that Lorenzo Rey Camejo arrived in El Salvador in the first week of July 2021. He is the owner and CTO -head of technology for the acronym in English- of the company Ulter Llc, a company located in Weston, Florida, and reporting on Linkedin that it has seven employees.
At that time, alongside Rey, the CEO of the Venezuelan company Dash Help, Giorgio Marinetti, was also in El Salvador.
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The company Ulter, according to its deed of incorporation, was created on April 20, 2018 to “support, advise and assist people with financial interests in digital currency.”
“The Secretariat of Innovation is not even seeing this from the Chivo Wallet. It’s amazing, the truth. Venezuelans are the first ring after the Bukele brothers,” said a government adviser who asked for anonymity for fear of reprisals. .
In addition, it would be Sara Hanna herself who recommended Lorenzo Rey Camejo to work in El Salvador.
The company Ulter is known to have overshadowed Strike – of Zap Solutions – as the person in charge of managing the government portfolio. Strike belongs to Jack Mallers, one of the promoters of the bitcoin initiative on El Zonte beach, and who on Saturday, June 5, 3 days before it became official as a law in El Salvador, gave the premiere in Miami on the adoption of bitcoin as a legal tender in El Salvador.
Lorenzo Rey and his company involved in scandals
Rei, an electronic engineer at Simón Bolívar University in Venezuela, is one of the founders of Dash Help, a “support center” implemented in Venezuela to educate on how to make transactions using “dash”, a failed digital currency other than Bitcoin.
He is also one of the founders of a program called Dash Merchant, based on transactions with the digital currency “dash” as a means of payment.
Dash Merchant Venezuela was involved in scandals when Dash Watch discovered, through a financial audit, that the executives of the Venezuelan subsidiary had provided incomplete information about the salaries they received.
“Dash” as a payment method in Venezuela failed because businesses did not end up accepting it or because they did not have staff who had the knowledge to operate the portfolio; and because the Venezuelan diaspora did not occupy him for sending remittances, he argued, in consultation with the Lighthouse, Rafael Peña, a Venezuelan journalist specializing in digital currency coverage for the sites Criptonoticias, Coindesk and Bitcobie.
Another King venture is called “Dash Text,” launched in late 2018, and it’s a “dash” wallet service via SMS messaging.
Rei promotes in his resume this experience with “dash” as an exercise in financial inclusion. “It’s the fastest and easiest method to receive dash. It’s handy for people in developing countries where smartphones have limited internet access.”
Sara Hanna, the head who is said to represent the President
Hanna holds no public office or official responsibilities in the Bukele administration, but is said to be a representative of the President, according to the El Far publication.
A publication in today’s newspaper indicates that in 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, Hanna was part of a group of Venezuelans whom the Presidential House maintained as in charge of the table of crisis and tests COVID.
For the implementation of Bitcoin and Chivo, Hanna has led meetings with entrepreneurs and representatives of the financial sector, convened since last August.
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Upcoming say that the Venezuelan adviser accumulated more power after the inclusion of the head of operations of Cabinet, Carolina Recinos, in the Engel List of corrupt and anti-democratic actors, prepared by the US State Department.
Moreover, he is thought to lead a hidden cabinet of Venezuelans that serves as a liaison between the Bukele brothers, the government and the New Ideas party, and is above the Council of Ministers.
On June 1, when President Bukele gave his sophomore speech in the Legislative Assembly, Hanna attended the event unexpectedly and demanded that protocol staff be allowed to be in a area reserved for ministers, to hear the president’s speech.
After the event, Hanna took a photo with the headlines of Economy, María Luisa Hayem; of Tourism, Bruna Valdez; of Government, Joan Carles Bidegain; of Public Works, Romeu Herrera and of the Siget, Manuel Aguilar.
Trainers of New Ideas
The publication of El Far also indicates that the Venezuelan team used the Beverly Hills Hotel to house a hundred trainers in charge of learning how to use the Chivo application and thus serve as replicators with a team of 4,000 people. , the promoters, the mission is to encourage through home visits that Salvadorans download the application on their phones. Visits would begin after the official launch of Goat.
A lot of trained staff is from the New Ideas party, the headquarters have also been used for training, as confirmed to El Far people involved in the three-day day.
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The training day was given with presentations and trainers are not allowed to enter phones, but El Far witnessed some and had access to chat conversations of some of the trainers and promoters.
“For 30 days of work, they offer $ 1,800 and in the first week they will pay $ 500 to the trainers. The 4,000 promoters will receive $ 36 a day to go from house to house teaching how to use the portfolio. The goal is that every day 10 people download the app for each promoter and for each person you download it the promoters will receive a $ 5 bonus, ”said one person who has been closely acquainted with the coordination process for training trainers and promoters.