So far, liquidators have recovered only $40 million in #assets. “It became clear that they were insolvent but were continuing to borrow, which really just looks like a classic #PonziScheme,” says Kasselman.

‘Even amid the economic fallout of the #Covid-19 #pandemic, world military spending hit record levels,’ said Dr Diego Lopes da Silva, Senior Researcher with #SIPRI’s Military Expenditure and Arms Production Programme. ‘There was a slowdown in the rate of real-terms growth due to inflation. In nominal terms, however, military spending grew by 6.1 per cent.’