Ponzi / Pyramid

The factory in Siun was the last room. The machine ran for a year inside it.

Xu Qing fled China in November 2024 after allegedly running a $245M Ponzi scheme. He spent seventeen months inside a factory in Ogun State before Nigerian police walked in. The arrest is a story about where machines go when they stop running.

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