Prominent Venezuelan crypto influencer Newman Perez was earlier this month confronted at a Colombian shopping center by a man who accused him of stealing his funds. The confrontation, caught on camera, was uploaded to TikTok, shared on Twitter, and has since gone viral.

"Did you not steal from me? What do you call that? A scam," said the man, who then addressed the crowd to share his opinions about Perez. "I present to you Colombia’s number one scammer."

Perez is actually Venezuelan, though currently lives in Colombia because he is wanted in Venezuela on charges of “continuous aggravated fraud, threats against a public official, alteration of goods, and private violence,” according to local media Caraota Digital.

Days after the viral video was uploaded, Perez said on his Instagram account that it was all a “social experiment”—perhaps as a way to save face—and then redirected his followers to a press release published in Forbes, promoting his latest crypto project BNB Beats.