Simple and straight - I was conned!
Still - all is not lost - I see that they DID buy monkey.com portal and that they did acquire some other coins...so let's see! This is a VERY Expensive lesson for my brother who went into it like a raging bull based on my review!
what we can do in future is look for PRIOR projects! (which we did for these guys as well but not in Blockchain/crypto space)...