Mark Karpeles Arrested In Japan on Suspicion of Fraudulent System Manipulation
In a follow-up to the previous article in which a Japanese source claimed that the Japanese Metro Police Department was looking into additional charges against former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles for fraudulent system manipulation, sources now confirm that Karpeles has been arrested by Japanese Police. Karpeles is suspected of having accessed the exchange’s computer system and falsifying data regarding its outstanding balance. Mt. Gox Formerly claimed that the balance issue was caused by a bug, but later filed for bankruptcy, losing over 850,000 bitcoins. Since the huge loss, over 200,000....
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In an exciting reddit post, it would appear that former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karperles will be charged on suspicions of fraudulent system manipulation. *** Edit: The validity of the article has been confirmed and Karpeles is now in police custody.*** The following is the translation from the Japanese article that appeared on Nikkei.com. The original article can be viewed here. “In the case of the virtual currency exchange MtGox which lost a large amount of bitcoin, the Metropolitan Police Department have decided to build a case against the failed operating company’s CEO on charges of....
Police arrested Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles today in Japan on allegations that he manipulated volume on the then-market leading bitcoin exchange platform prior to its 2014 collapse. The formal action from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police follows escalating reports this week that Karpeles was facing criminal charges for fraud and embezzlement, and comes more than a year after Mt Gox first filed for bankruptcy protection in the US and Japan. A report by The Wall Street Journal indicated Karpeles denied he was facing imminent arrest as early as Friday, calling accusations "false" and suggesting....
The notorious Mark Karpeles, CEO of Mt Gox, was released on bail yesterday after paying nearly $100,000 prior to being released, according to Japanese media. In 2014, the now-defunct bitcoin exchange, Mt Gox, collapsed after it was reported that it had lost hundreds of millions of dollars in customers bitcoins. Karpeles can’t leave Japan. According to Japanese news outlet, News24, Karpeles paid around $100,000 with the condition that he wasn’t to leave Japan once on bail. Since the collapse of Mt Gox, Karpeles was reportedly arrested twice last year in connection with the investigation....
The CEO of failed Bitcoin exchange company Mt. Gox has been arrested by the Japanese police and is currently being held in connection with the loss of bitcoins worth $387 million. Mark Karpelès, former founder and CEO of Japanese-based bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, once the biggest bitcoin exchange in the world has been arrested in Japan by the country's police on suspicion on inflating his account by a million dollars. Japanese police arrested Karpelès, 30, alleging that he manipulated the collapsed company's computer systems in February 2013 to increase the cash balance in an account owned....