2024-02-21 16:15:19
The program of the Salzkammergut Capital of Culture Year 2024 aims to shake up the region and thus create movement. Every single project at the festival has a connection to the location, many of which involve the local population. Especially at The great world theater of the Salzburg Theater Ecce.
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2024-02-21 12:16:05
Investors have injected more than $8.9 million into Élan Future, a Granby company that says it has technology that should “put an end to the energy crisis.” However, almost all of the sums received through contracts linked to its cryptocurrency would not have been used for the activities of the young company, which is today in the sights of the Financial Markets Authority (AMF). A part of this money would have rather been used to purchase buildings, two Teslas, a yacht and a Ducati motorcycle.
On its website, Élan Future promises to change the world. The company founded and managed by Jérôme-Olivier Malo claims to have developed a “sophisticated energy amplifier” which, by relying on “parametric resonance”, might “put an end to the energy crisis”.
The device, it is written, would multiply “the range of your electric vehicle by 10”. It would thus be possible to recharge an automobile “ [qu’]once every two months. This technology, which can be installed in “30 minutes”, might also significantly reduce the energy consumption of buildings.
The duty consulted the white paper that Élan Future representatives presented to potential investors in recent years. No technical information details the process. It states that it has built a prototype and guarantees that the technology will be ready by 2025. “We followed a rigorous verification and prototype validation process with two different universities,” it states, without however naming the establishments in question.
Jérôme-Olivier Malo refused the interview request from Duty,but agreed to provide comments by email. “To date, two patent applications have been published concerning general aspects of the use of the parametric resonance principle,” he writes, adding that Élan Future’s research program “focuses primarily on the development of electric generators without a magnet.
“The latest device prototypes developed by Élan are the subject of a patent application that has not yet been published. This unpublished patent application is one of Élan’s trade secrets,” he asserts.
Élan Future and its founder are now in the sights of the Financial Markets Authority. The AMF accuses them of having made investments through contracts linked to the company’s cryptocurrency — Elan Coin — without having the necessary authorizations.
At the request of the AMF, which is currently continuing its investigation, a judge of the Administrative Financial Markets Tribunal ordered the blocking of Élan Future’s accounts, but also those of Mr. Malo and several business partners.
The Quebec financial markets regulatory body says it fears that the sums collected will be “squandered”. Of the $8.9 million received from confirmed or potential investors, according to estimates from the AMF investigation, only $622,000 of the cash outflows “might perhaps be linked to business expenses” . Jérôme-Olivier Malo and his companies “may have implemented a scheme according to which a significant part of the funds collected from investors would be used to pay personal expenses”.
According to current evidence from the AMF, the sums injected by investors would have been used to purchase a yacht, three cars (including two Teslas), a Ducati motorcycle and two buildings. According to documents obtained by The dutya numbered company belonging to Mr. Malo purchased for $1.25 million the Bromont building where the Boréalis spa was located a few years ago.
The respondents contest the court’s decision.
By email, Mr. Malo recalled that the orders were issued a few days before Christmas, “without [qu’il] is present and without [qu’il] was able to assert [sa] position and provide the necessary clarifications and explanations. “At this stage, I want to let the investigation by the Financial Markets Authority take its course while showing collaboration to get to the bottom of things. »
In addition to Élan Future and Jérôme-Olivier Malo, the court order also targets business partners of the Granby entrepreneur: Martin Isabelle, Nicolas Maltais, Dominik Bilodeau, Alexandre Cossette and Marie-Soleil Baril.
The accounts of the company Eternelle Global, also owned by Jérôme-Olivier Malo, were also blocked. The latter offers genetic test analysis services. The company’s email is no longer accessible, and calls to its telephone number go to a generic voicemail box where you cannot leave a message. Jérôme-Olivier Malo explains that Éterelle Global has no longer been active since the pandemic, but that it still ensures communications with its existing clients.
The value of the Elan Coin cryptocurrency has also fallen by more than 70% since the order obtained by the AMF, according to the Coinbase site, which tracks the evolution of many cryptoassets. After being around $10 in December 2022, the value of Elan Coin today is less than $0.50.
Martin Lalonde, president of Rivemont, a manager which offers an investment fund linked to cryptocurrency, however wants to put into perspective the role played by cryptocurrencies in this type of issue. “Since it’s new, since it’s special, since the returns have been so good for holders of cryptocurrencies in the past, that means that there are several people who want to participate without necessarily doing all the necessary homework, without making sure they understand what they are investing in. »
“The danger is not the cryptocurrency as such, but rather that the person raising the funds is not registered – therefore supervised – by the Financial Markets Authority or by another regulatory body,” he says. to remind.
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2024-02-21 07:04:00
Carlos Alcaraz will have tests on the ankle injury that forced him to retire two games into his Rio Open first-round match.
The world number two required medical attention following twisting his ankle during only the second point of the match once morest Brazil’s Thiago Monteiro.
The 20-year-old Spaniard returned to the court and managed to break his opponent’s serve in the opening game.
But the two-time major winner retired following Monteiro immediately broke back.
“Tomorrow I’ll have a test for my ankle and let’s see if it’s something serious or not,” said Alcaraz, Rio champion in 2022 and runner-up at the tournament last year.
“I felt bad. That was the first impression I had. I was feeling pain once I fell down, so I thought it was going to be difficult to continue if I was still having those feelings.
“After a few points it didn’t feel better. I mightn’t move well and I knew that it was going to be impossible to continue.
“I thought it was going to get worse if I kept playing for such a long match and that’s why I chose to retire.”
Reigning Wimbledon champion Alcaraz is due to face compatriot and 23-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal in The Netflix Slam on 3 March.
He will then hope to be fit enough to defend his Indian Wells title next month.
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VALENCIA (EP/EFE). The Civil Guard has arrested a Koldo García Izaguirrewho was an advisor to the former minister José Luis Ábalos at the head of the Transportation portfolio, for a case of alleged corruption in the purchase of masks during the Covid-19 pandemic.
As advanced The confidential and confirm to Europa Press According to sources of the investigation, the arrest was carried out by the Central Operational Unit (UCO) of the Civil Guard for the alleged connection with the collection of bribes in the allocation of masks in the worst months of the pandemic.
The aforementioned sources specify that this is an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and that secrecy has been decreed regarding the actions that affect Koldo García Izaguirre, whom Ábalos appointed as a director of Renfe Mercancías during his time at the head of the Ministry of Transport in the government of Pedro Sanchez and as Secretary of Organization of the PSOE.
In 2020, in response to questions from the PP, Ábalos already had to give explanations in Congress regarding the role of his advisor Koldo García, in this case regarding the meeting in Venezuela with the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez.
García and his supposed partner, the president of Zamora CF, Victor de Aldamadetained in an operation for the alleged collection of commissions for the purchase of masks, will be at the disposal of the National Court on Thursday.
García and De Aldama, who, as investigators suspect, would allegedly be partners in the investigated plot, are part of the five detainees who will appear starting at 9:00 on Thursday before magistrate Ismael Moreno, investigator of the case, according to reports to EFE legal sources. The other fifteen arrested have been released, among them Koldo García’s wife, according to the sources consulted.
Ábalos has declared himself “stunned” and “very disappointed” by the arrest of his advisor Koldo García Izaguirre for an alleged collection of commissions on contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic, and in any case he has defended his management at the head of the Ministry of Transportation.
In the corridors of Congress, when asked regarding the arrest of his former collaborator in the Ministry, he said he had no more information than what appeared in the press and assured that he had lost relationship with his former collaborator over the years.
The judicial investigation for which García Izaguirre has been arrested investigates alleged bribery in contracts during the Covid-19 pandemic whose material was destined for the Ministries of Transport and Interior, as well as autonomous communities (CCAA) such as the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands, as reported. to Europa Press research sources.
This is an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office headed by Central Court number 2 of the National Court, which yesterday authorized the arrest of 20 people, including Koldo García, and around 26 home searches or requests.
As reported by the Prosecutor’s Office in a press release, the proceedings carried out – declared secret – affect several Spanish provinces and are related to alleged criminal acts associated with crimes of criminal organization, influence peddling and bribery, related to the awarding of different contracts from various administrations.
Investigation sources have assured Europa Press that among those detained there is no public office, since the proceedings focus on the role of intermediaries such as Koldo García and the rest of those involved in the contracting of material to face Covid-19 by the Ministries of Transport – -of which Ábalos was head–, that of the Interior and the CCAA of the Balearic Islands and the Canary Islands.
These sources indicate that the amount of the contracts of these public administrations exceeds 50 million euros, according to the researchers’ estimate.
Koldo García Izaguirre was an advisor to José Luis Ábalos during the latter’s time as Secretary of Organization of the PSOE and Minister of Transport. His role as a person close to Ábalos was the subject of several controversies, including his participation in the meeting at the Madrid-Barajas airport with the vice president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodríguez, which is why the opposition asked for explanations in the Congress.
This advisor was appointed by Ábalos as a director of Renfe Mercancías, among other positions, one of the companies that depend on the Ministry of Transport and whose contracts during the pandemic are now the subject of investigations for the alleged bribes that some intermediaries would have charged.
José Luis Ábalos was Minister of Development between 2018 and 2021, a stage in which he combined the position with that of Secretary of Organization of the PSOE, with Pedro Sánchez as general secretary of the party. He is currently a deputy and president of the Interior Commission in Congress.
