Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego, founder of Grupo Salinas, is deeply trapped in a Bitcoin lending scheme, with losses amounting to $5.5 billion.

Mexico's third richest man and founder of Grupo Salinas, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, recently disclosed to The Wall Street Journal that he was defrauded of $5.5 billion in a transnational high-end financial scam, shrinking his personal wealth by nearly a quarter and evaporating about $4 billion in marke