Pleterski has pleaded not guilty to fraud over $5,000 and money laundering. <\/p>\n
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The jury in Aiden Pleterski’s trial was shown this photo on Friday of Mitchell Learning holding his own phone with a screenshot he testified Pleterski sent him of Pleterski’s trading account with a balance of more than $311 million. (Ontario Superior Court of Justice)<\/p>\n
Pleterski wasn\u2019t home when Learning arrived at his Burlington, Ont., home.<\/p>\n
In his absence, Learning testified he was able to gain access to Pleterski\u2019s email account on his computer and found an email from the trading platform FXChoice confirming Pleterski had “successfully deleted” the account where the $311 million was supposed to be.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He then told mutual friends to come to Pleterski\u2019s mansion, and one of them recorded a video, also presented in court, of Pleterski\u2019s emails. Those included account statements from another trading platform Forex.com.<\/p>\n
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Aiden Pleterski’s Burlington, Ont., mansion. Friend and investor Mitchell Learning, who said he invested $400,000 with Pleterski, says he went to his home seeking proof of an investment fund. (Pelin Sidki\/CBC)<\/p>\n
“Looks like it\u2019s never been higher than $1,000, oh my god,” the friend says on the video as he and Learning look through the statements.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Referring to the “available margin” on another statement, the friend says, “400 f\u2013king dollars, I\u2019ve been f\u2013ked.” <\/p>\n
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Later, Learning said Pleterski returned home and told him and Pleterski\u2019s girlfriend “a story”\u00a0 where Pleterski was trading and everything was going well until the summer of 2021 “where apparently things took a turn.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
“At the end of the summer, around September 2021, he had $40 million in a trading account,” Learning said about what Pleterski told him.<\/p>\n
“It only kept going down from there. He tried to make riskier trades to make money back, essentially losing the remainder of the money and then from that point on starting running a Ponzi scheme.”<\/p>\n
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Mitchell Learning testified at the Superior Court in Toronto on Friday on the fourth day of ‘Crypto King’ Aiden Pleterski\u2019s fraud and money laundering trial. (Pam Davies\/CBC News)<\/p>\n
Afterward, Learning said he left the house and didn\u2019t really know what to do.<\/p>\n
“There were a lot of emotions and I was definitely very upset about everything,” he said in court.<\/p>\n
Two days later, Learning said he recorded a phone call with Pleterski. <\/p>\n
Pleterski promises to ‘make it right’<\/p>\n
The 30-minute call was played in court Friday afternoon. In it, Pleterski expresses regret for not being “f–king straight up with everybody” when “the investment went to s–t, trading went bad, everything was lost.” <\/p>\n
Learning also gets angry at Pleterski for the position he says Pleterski put him in.<\/p>\n
“You did me so f–king dirty,” said Learning on the June 2022 phone call recording.<\/p>\n
“You lied to me. You got me to show fake f–king s–t to people, put my neck out for you, meet people, be the f–king, like, face? And just, like, all of it was just a f–king lie.”<\/p>\n
Pleterski then tells Learning, on the recording, that he’s going to fix it and will “make it right” to get everyone their money back.<\/p>\n
In court, Pleterski chose not to cross-examine Learning.<\/p>\n
“I’m unable to come up with questions for the witness,” he said. <\/p>\n
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