The actor took part in the promotion of NFT in May 2022 to finance a film project. A project that would be a scam according to the revelations of Mediapart.
“Friends, I’m not used to responding to controversies. But here, given the magnitude, it seems important to me to make things clear.” Kev Adams reacted late Monday evening to the controversy over the animated film Plush. A project to be financed thanks to the sale of NFT, and that the comic had defended in May 2022 alongside the actress Camille Lellouche or the rapper Gims.
This project led by Fabien Tref, a cryptocurrency investor living in Dubai, would be a scam, as reveals it Mediapart: nearly 770 investors lost the equivalent of approximately 1.5 million euros between May and June 2022. The project, originally, was nevertheless attractive: it had been promised to NFT buyers that they could recoup up to 80% of the film’s worldwide box office profits.
“I was contacted in 2021 about a crowdsourced animated feature film project. The idea was simple: I had to lend my voice to a potential cartoon and promote it. In other words: practice my profession . THAT’S ALL”, defends Kev Adams.
“A controversy that calls into question my integrity”
“The concept was new, modern, cool, and the idea of sharing a film with people appealed to me,” he continues. “I made sure of the seriousness of the project, I even spoke at length with the studios (which were supposed to produce and manufacture the film). I was confident, surrounded by professionals. I understood later that their project was too ambitious and unsuitable for the NFT and cinema market.”
The actor claims to have “had no remuneration”. He says today that he regrets “that people feel wronged or betrayed today”: “Contrary to what some articles make believe, I am not the ‘brain’ of an operation or any scam. (. ..) I find myself today at the heart of a controversy that calls into question my integrity and my honesty vis-à-vis my public.
According to Mediapart, the man behind this project, Fabien Tref, has never worked in the film industry or in production. But he would be a friend of Kev Adams and would have financed his birthday in July 2020 in a villa in Cannes. He was also the subject of a preliminary investigation in 2016 by the Toulon prosecutor’s office after a report on Tracfin, responsible for the fight against money laundering.
