Ricardo Escobar claims the copyright on a flamethrower that Elon Musk’s the Boring Company started selling in January of 2018 belongs to the two brothers, Sputnik News reports.

In an interview with The Telegraph, the 72-year-old alleged that Musk had ripped off the design after one of his engineers visited the Escobar compound in 2017. The idea supposedly started from stories of how the two brothers kept themselves warm by burning mountains of cash.

Elon Musk’s the Boring Company started selling the flamethrower in 2018 and according to the website more than 20,000 devices have been purchased to date. Musk's flamethrower costs $500 dollars, while the price tag for Ricardo Escobar's model is $249.

Escobar said he plans to file a $100 million suit against Musk in the near future and he doesn’t intend to stop there. According to Escobar he will do his best to make sure "Musk loses his stronghold in Tesla". Tesla and Musk have not commented on the issue.

"Elon Musk is a person that betrays people. Pablo never betrayed anyone. People only betrayed him. This was their mistake, and usually, it cost them their life. Such is nature", said Roberto Escobar in an interview with the Telegraph.