Silvio Schembri, parliamentary secretary for financial services and the digital economy, has filed a report to the police Cybercrime Unit after a so-called company using the name Nexus posted adverts in which it falsely claimed endorsement by the secretariat.

The advert featured a spam article posted on a site called Major News claiming Mr Schembri’s endorsement to a 'Bitcoin Revolution'.

"This matter has also been referred to Facebook to take action from their end" te secretariat said.

Mr Schembri denied making the endorsement.

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