In an action comedy film called "00Khaby" -- which he says will be shot in Brazil, India and the United States -- Lame will play a food delivery man recruited as a spy by the American secret service.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) has described the floods which displaced million of people as unprecedented.

"When we said this is what we wanted to do, a lot of people told us we were crazy. Every single day we just showed up, we did our best and this is the outcome."

He invested hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money in the cryptocurrency, despite warnings about volatility risks from global institutions.