Rosa María González, key figure in Generación Zoe collapse, captured after four years on the run.

Venezuelan authorities have arrested Rosa María González, one of the key figures in the collapse of Argentine crypto company Generación Zoe, nearly four years after the scandal that defrauded tens of thousands of investors. González, 30, was captured in San Cristóbal, in Táchira state, during an Interpol operation.

González is accused of fleeing Argentina with 611 Bitcoin, worth approximately $56 million at current prices. She spent years evading authorities, moving between Buenos Aires apartments with private security before crossing the Venezuelan border, according to local reports. Her arrest comes almost exactly one year after Leonardo Cositorto, founder of Generación Zoe, was sentenced to 12 years in prison.

Generación Zoe promised investors unusually high returns, claiming to use proprietary trading algorithms with so-called “quantum security.” In reality, according to investigators, the company operated a classic Ponzi scheme, paying old investors with funds from new participants. González had allegedly introduced Cositorto to the trading algorithms that became the centerpiece of the fraud. In promotional videos, she claimed the algorithms could generate monthly returns of up to 70%.

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