SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt informed reporters Friday that he’s baffled over how $12.7 million of his cash has gone lacking from an area personal funding agency that authorities are investigating as a part of a large fraud that started greater than a decade in the past.

Bolt additionally stated he has fired his enterprise supervisor, including that it was not an amicable break up.

When requested if he was “broke,” the retired star athlete laughed.

“I’m not broke, but it surely’s positively put a damper on me,” he stated. “It was for my future. Everyone is aware of I’ve three youngsters. I’m nonetheless searching for my mother and father, and I nonetheless need to stay very effectively.”

Bolt’s attorneys stated the athlete’s account with Kingston-based Shares and Securities Restricted dwindled from almost $12.8 million to some $12,000. They’d given the corporate till Friday to return the cash or face civil and legal motion.

It wasn’t instantly clear whether or not any motion had been taken as of late Friday. Lawyer Linton P. Gordon didn’t return a message looking for remark.

He informed the Jamaica Observer newspaper that the general public ought to anticipate the “anticipated and the surprising” within the case.

“There may be nothing to say at this stage, given what is going on,” he was quoted as saying. “We’ve got met with individuals, and we’re coping with sure issues.”

Earlier this week, Jamaican Finance Minister Nigel Clarke introduced the director of the Monetary Providers Fee was stepping down and the Financial institution of Jamaica would now be in control of regulating the island’s monetary system.

He stated a number of authorities companies and aged clients additionally have been affected by the alleged fraud.

“It’s all the time a tragic scenario. Positively disillusioned,” Bolt stated of the aged who have been affected. “Everyone’s confused. … I’m as confused as the general public.”

Jamaican authorities have requested assist from the FBI and different unidentified worldwide specialists, including that purchasers got false statements concerning their balances as a part of the alleged fraud. Officers haven’t but stated what number of purchasers general have been affected and the way a lot cash in whole is lacking.

Earlier on Friday, Bolt spoke at a sponsored luncheon for an upcoming relay and referred to the alleged fraud.

“As you all know. I’ve been going by a tricky week, a couple of robust weeks,” he stated, including he would proceed to do the whole lot he can to uplift his island.

“It doesn’t matter what’s happening proper now, Jamaica is my nation. That can by no means change,” he stated.

In an apart with reporters, he stated: “I’m simply making an attempt to concentrate on my household and making an attempt to not suppose an excessive amount of about it as a result of it’s a tough scenario.”

Shares and Securities Restricted didn’t return a message looking for remark Friday. The corporate contacted authorities earlier this month to alert them {that a} supervisor had apparently dedicated fraud.

Earlier this week, Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness introduced that his administration wouldn’t bail out the corporate.

“The federal government is not going to socialize any debt, and we is not going to socialize the failure of our banks,” he stated.