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Music: Akon interview; Part 4 of 5ENGLAND: London: GIR:INTAkon (singer and entrepreneur) STUDIO INTERVIEW SOTPresenter SOT: "On Akon city, one of your previous business partners has accused it of being a Ponzi scheme - is there any danger that confidence is being lost ?"Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT:"no not at all - he's an old business partner - unfortunately you know we had a bad breakup, and he was utilising the media as a way of trying to destroy me or put negative information out there, you know to kinda question my credibility - but nothing stopped anything-"Presenter SOT:"Has your dispute resolved then? or are..."Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT:"It's completely resolved (nods affirmatively) - completely 100 percent resolved - "Presenter SOT:"-has he been paid?"Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT:"I wouldn't say he has been paid - he was always paid - he wanted to continue doing business with me in certain sectors and I just refused - and unfortunately that was the punishment that I had to pay for saying no"Presenter SOT:"Now perhaps what's most intriguing - the city is supposed to be being driven by a crypto currency which is already live - ACOIN-"Akon (singer and entrepreneur) SOT:"Right - That was when the project started, there has been some changes (laughs) - unfortunately because of the, you know, the volatility of cryptocurrency and not knowing where it is at today - we had to change complete directions on it because - ultimately now we are getting real investments from some major situations and we wanted to make sure that we kept the trust that the people have invested in the city - and the least thing I wanted to do - last thing actually, was to create a risk factor for the people that is believing in this project, so we decided to delete the crypto side of it and the city until the development of it - until even myself is more confident is more crypto is going before we add it to the...