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HyperVerse

May 2024

  • two men pose for picture, one with a suitcase

    US crypto entrepreneur arrested in Dubai alleges torture by police

    Edel Hsieh, who is linked to HyperVerse CEO, alleges police tortured him into signing a false confession

February 2024

  • Asic

    Former crypto director banned from leaving Australia after Blockchain Global collapsed owing $58m

    Liang ‘Allan’ Guo has been deemed a flight risk and ordered to hand over any passports in his possession
  • A screengrab from the Hyperverse promotional video on a laptop

    Astonishing returns, cult overtones and a ‘perfect virtual world’. How the HyperVerse scheme caught fire online

    Bizarre videos promoted the alleged Ponzi scheme and senior promoters lived the high life, but for thousands around the world the reality was a huge financial loss

    • Victoria police were asked to look at HyperVerse information in 2020 – but sent case back to Asic 22 months later

    • ‘I lost my house, I lost all my money’: the retiree taking on the banks over crypto fund loss

    • Sam Lee appears in video promoting new investment scheme days after US fraud charges

January 2024

  • Sam Lee holds up a bitcoin

    Australian Sam Lee charged with conspiracy to commit fraud in US for role in $1.89bn ‘Ponzi scheme’

  • Composite image of a finger pointing to a country on a map, with the HyperVerse logo in background.

    HyperVerse crypto scheme targeted developing countries before collapse left some investors ‘suicidal’

  • Directors of Blockchain Global Ryan Xu and Sam Lee

    Asic examines collapsed bitcoin company Blockchain Global after Guardian investigation

  • Composite of Stephen Harrison in his role as the HyperVerse ‘chief executive’ Steven Reece Lewis, left, and as himself.

    ‘I do feel bad about this’: Englishman who posed as HyperVerse CEO says sorry to investors who lost millions

  • HyperVerse crypto promoter ‘Bitcoin Rodney’ arrested and charged in US

  • Asic faces questions over failure to warn consumers about HyperVerse crypto scheme

  • Chief executive of collapsed crypto fund HyperVerse does not appear to exist

December 2023

  • Vera Gazzard holding her dog Missy near on a yellow couch in Torquay on Victoria’s Surf Coast

    ‘They are so convincing’: Vera Gazzard lost her life savings to HyperVerse

  • Composite image of the Hyperverse logo and bitcoin logo with a faceless man in a suit looking on

    Investors lose millions as crypto schemes operate unchecked in Australia

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