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How Kenyans lost millions in Bitcoin pyramid scheme

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Kenyan Bitcoin investors have fallen prey to a Brazilian pyramid scheme which has gone down with millions of shillings they had invested in it.

The company known as Velox 10 launched operations in Kenya on September 20, 2017 and was run by a Brazilian international known as Ricardo Rocha.

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