Ashley Barr Reveals New Details about Mt. Gox Operations after Karpeles' Arrest
As Mark Karpeles was being arrested on August 1, 2015, his former employee Ashley Barr, who operated under the name "Adam Turner," took to Reddit to answer questions about his time at Mt. Gox. In his introduction, Barr wrote, "I was hired by Mark [Karpeles] in June 2011 to help him handle the crazy inbox at Mt. Gox during bitcoin's initial rally. In....
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Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of the now defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, has been re-arrested on charges of embezzlement. According to local media reports, Tokyo's Metropolitan Police served Karpeles with a new arrest warrant earlier today. Reports suggesting a re-arrest was a possibility first surfaced yesterday amid claims he had embezzled ¥321m ($2.6m) of customer deposits to fund other personal projects. As previously reported by CoinDesk, Karpeles has been in custody for the past three weeks - the maximum time period suspects can be detained without being formally charged. The new....
If he would set foot on American soil, Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles would likely face an immediate arrest. In an article last week, CCN reported on a US judge ordering Mark Karpeles to travel to the United States for hearing if he wanted bankruptcy protection there. This seems unlikely to happen now. Arresting Karpeles. A federal judge ordered Mark Karpeles to appear in Dallas on April 17 to explain how his company was able to lose at least $400 million worth of customer deposits. This seems highly unlikely after having heard some lawyers who are involved in the process. They claim that....
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....
October 28, 2015, Former Mt Gox CEO Mark Karpeles was re-arrested for suspicious activity involved with moving embezzled funds to his personal accounts. Japanese media reports again the new arrest of the infamous “Magical Tux” as the “CEO of Bitcoin” and supposedly he had quite the run with Prostitutes during his last release time. Tokyo Police arrested Karpeles for moving USD $1 Million in Yen to his bank account a few months ago leading to the 30-year old’s first arrest. The media in Japan went wild as they recorded the Gox CEO covering his face and some called him the person “in charge”....
New embezzlement charges have been filed against Mark Karpeles for moving $20 million worth of yen in client money to his bank account and spending an unspecified sum on prostitutes, reported Astro Awani in Malaysia. Karpeles already faces fraud charges for the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the virtual currency from Mt. Gox, the now defunct Tokyo-based exchange. Citing Yomiuri, a Japanese newspaper, Astro Awani reported Karpeles spent an unspecified sum on prostitutes while the Jiji Press news agency in Japan said the charges involve "several women whom he met....