You misunderstood the first sentence in my comment.

I’ve edited the word had to needed to make it more clear.

All the CEO needed to say after funding that fascist was:

Oops, sorry. I didn’t check out that developer’s history before funding his project. It won’t happen again. I promise going forwards that we’ll google people’s names first before sending them any money.

They didn’t have to make a big deal about it, even a simple quickly forgotten post on their personal social media account would have been enough.

People still ask him about it, and he’ll talk about anything else.

But he won’t give a simple apology.

His silence is deafening.

Better to just go for the EU version of framework without the fascism: https://novacustom.com/

Edit: Changed “All the CEO had to say” to “All the CEO needed to say” to avoid confusion.