New Arrest Warrant Issued Against Bitcoin Exchange Mt. Gox CEO
Mt. Gox was one of the biggest bitcoin exchange companies in existence, before it got hit by a hack and lost several bitcoin and client funds. Investigations revealed that its CEO Mark Karpeles had tweaked some of the accounts, allegedly to funnel money to his account. Last week, Japanese authorities issued a new arrest warrant against Karpeles over claims that the CEO stole several million dollars from clients, including about $48,000 allegedly spent on a luxury canopy bed. Bitcoin Exchange Bankruptcy. Karpeles has been denying these allegations and is already in custody earlier this....
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A warrant for the arrest of Do Kwon and five others has reportedly been issued by prosecutors in South Korea. The prosecutors allege that Kwon and his co-accused violated the country’s capital markets law. In addition to the arrest warrant, prosecutors will reportedly request an Interpol red notice for the Terraform Labs chief executive officer. Terraform Labs Executives Accused of Violating South Korean Capital Markets Law Prosecutors in South Korea have reportedly issued an arrest warrant for Terraform Labs co-founder and chief executive officer Do Kwon. The prosecutors allege....
A South African museum, Liliesleaf Museum Heritage Site, recently raised $130,000 via the auction of a non-fungible token (NFT) created from an arrest warrant issued against Nelson Mandela in 1962.
Proceeds From NFT Sale to Fund Museum Activities
A non-fungible token (NFT) minted from the former South African President Nelson Mandela’s warrant of arrest was recently auctioned for $130,000 (1.9 million rands), a report has said. The proceeds are expected to help bankroll Liliesleaf Museum Heritage Site, an organization that documents South Africa’s fight for....
Reports from South Africa say the country’s police have now issued a warrant for the arrest of Sandile Shezi, a 29-year-old cryptocurrency trader. The warrant was issued after one Allan Ledwaba, an investor with Shezi’s Global Forex Institute, accused the cryptocurrency trader of swindling him out of more than $33,000 (R500,000). Using Supercars to Woo Victims According to a report by City Press, Ledwaba’s interactions with Shezi began soon after he attended one of the latter’s seminars where attendees were taught forex trading. Ledwaba alleges that he was shown....
Bitcoiners who use Tor be warned! An obscure change to the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure will automatically take effect on December 1 unless Congress blocks it. No Warrant Required. A revised Rule 41 would allow the FBI to use a single warrant to hack an indefinite number of computers anywhere in the world. To hack a computer today, the FBI....
Now it happens, unsurprisingly: the Interpol is involved and wants a piece of Do Kwon, the disgraced co-founder of the Terra ecosystem which disintegrated drastically in May, multiple news outlets reported Monday. Last week, the Singapore Police Force issued an arrest warrant for Kwon who, it said that time, was no longer in the country. […]