Ben Delo is a 42 year old billionaire and co-founder of the BitMex cryptocurrency trading platform.
He is autistic and has managed to flourish academically after he found educational support as a child in the British education system.
He has donated to many charities and science research endeavours. He has made a £25 million donation to the Sheila Coates Foundation, a charity he founded in 2020 to support young people with autism.
In 2019, he signed the Giving Pledge created by Bill Gates, his then-wife Melinda French Gates and Warren Buffett, which has led to hundreds of the world’s wealthiest people promising to give away at least half of their fortunes during their lifetimes.
Trump pardoned him in 2025, when he had been accused of money laundering in the US:
- The co-founders, Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo and Samuel Reed previously pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act, for failing to maintain anti-money laundering and know-your-customer programs, as did former business development chief Gregory Dwyer.
- Prosecutors accused the men of effectively operating BitMEX as a “money laundering platform” and that its purported withdrawal from the U.S. market was “a sham.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardon-bitmex-crypto-exchange-money-laundering.html
Once someone has been pardoned by Trump they seem to return the favour by encouraging social change which seems to fit with extremist Project 25 type ambitions to break democracies, in this case the British democracy.
This recent article in The Guardian drew my attention:
Revealed: a crypto billionaire’s political base hosting ‘anti-woke’ and rightwing activists in Westminster
Pardoned by Trump after violating US banking law, Ben Delo provides funding, networking, and podcasting space for a range of groups, including those with hardline views on migration and abortion
Sandra Laville and Rowena MasonWed 18 Mar 2026 11.00 GMTShare
A British billionaire convicted in the US for failing to implement adequate money-laundering controls on his cryptocurrency business is funding a political base in the heart of Westminster used by “anti-woke” and rightwing activists.
Ben Delo, 42, who was pardoned by Donald Trump last year, has given support in kind to Rupert Lowe, the anti-migration MP challenging Nigel Farage from the right – while also connecting with mainstream figures including the Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch and former cabinet minister Michael Gove.
Delo, an Oxford graduate who moved to Hong Kong in 2012 and appears to still be based there, says he is a champion of “free speech” and has vowed to tackle the “nuisance” of political correctness. He supports more than 50 organisations ranging across the political spectrum and public life, as well as non-affiliated groups and individuals.
Now a joint investigation by the Guardian and Hope Not Hate reveals some of the people and projects that have benefited from Delo’s largesse.
Among them are those who have expressed hardline positions on immigration, nationalism and abortion.
Delo, who says he has poured more than £100m into philanthropy, is providing funding, networking opportunities and help in kind via a suite of rooms in a building overlooking Westminster Abbey, known as the Sanctuary. Those given access can use the facility free of charge for events, office space and podcasting.
Restore Britain, the party founded by Lowe, a former Reform UK MP who now sits as an independent, launched its campaign for the mass deportation of millions of migrants from a room at the Sanctuary last year.
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