The young entrepreneur Jorge Christian Batista Agront (aka Chris Agront), who was accused today of tax evasion for nearly $7.6 million, promised the people who paid for the courses and workshops he offered through his JetTrades platform to show them the secrets to making money without working.
The now accused, who was described by the Department of the Treasury as a “well-known influencer”, has 18,900 subscribers on his YouTube channel, in which he shared promotional videos of his workshops and stories of how he supposedly managed to get out of bankruptcy to ride on private jets.
“I will tell you the #1 business model in the 21st century to have true financial freedom and true time freedom,” Agront assured in one of the offers on free courses in which he boasted that his lifestyle allowed him to travel the world. and work only two hours a week.
On social media, the businessman is known as Chris Agront. On Instagram he has over 263,000 followers, while on Facebook he has only 15K.
“With my teaching system I have created 22 millionaires and multiple six-figure earners. We have impacted thousands of Latino families in the USA (United States) and traveled to more than 21 countries. Boricua! ”, He highlighted.
In another offer, Agront promised his followers that their bank accounts may have the ability to generate more money while they simply sleep or travel the world.
The investment scheme promoted by Agront is based on the FOREX investment market.
“Chris Agront, CEO and founder of JetTrades shares with you one of the most powerful teachings of this Mastermind. These pillars are the foundation for himself to build two Multiple 7-figure businesses, millionaire students and impact millions of lives in Latin America”, reads another of the promotions.
Among other things, Agront also shares in his courses “information that the system and the banks do not want you to know, the secret that moves all the money in the world.”
According to the agencies, Batista Agront failed to report more than $11 million in his personal and corporate income tax returns between 2017 and 2022.
The Economic Crimes Division of the Department of Justice filed five charges today for not filing returns in violation of Section 6030.11 of the Internal Revenue Code, four of them for his personal return and one related to the return of his company JetTrades.
