By Elizabeth Howcroft and Hannah Lang (Reuters) -Around $99 million worth of cryptocurrency was withdrawn from the marketplace of a coin at the centre of a scandal in Argentina by eight digital wallets linked to the crypto token's creator,

Here’s what happened: Late Friday night, Milei fired off a tweet lending his support to a cryptocurrency token called $LIBRA. Milei described the coin to his nearly four million followers as a “private project dedicated to encouraging the growth of the Argentine economy,” claiming that it would be “funding small Argentine businesses and ventures.”