Considered one of the stars of biotechnology, he began to serve his sentence in prison. This is Elizabeth Holmes, who was sentenced to eleven years in prison after she defrauded investors of her Theranos company out of several million dollars.

At the age of 39, Holmes went to prison after denying a final request to remain free while the fraud conviction was under appeal.

“We can confirm that Elizabeth Holmes has arrived at Camp Bryan Federal Prison (…) and has been taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Prisons,” the authority said in a statement.

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When he was 19 years old, Holmes created Theranos (2003) and devoted himself to the business full-time after leaving school. His popularity grew when he announced that he had invented revolutionary technology to perform reliable and accurate blood tests for various diseases, from cholesterol to cancer, with just a few drops from his fingertips.

At the age of 31, she already became a multi-millionaire by arousing the interest of investors due to the great potential of her invention.

His luck ran out in 2015, when The Wall Street Journal published a series of investigative articles questioning the credibility of Theranos tests and the technology used to do them.

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In addition to the prison sentence, he must also pay $ 452 million to the victims who invested in the company, such as Rupert Murdoch, who must receive $ 125 million, or the pharmaceutical company Walgreens, to which he must pay back another $ 40.

Most of Bryan’s inmates have been convicted of white-collar crime, petty drug charges and harboring illegal immigrants, according to The Wall Street Journal.