Korean police reportedly arrest first person involved in Terra collapse
The head of the business team of Terraform Labs was a part of Do Kwon’s inner circle. After months of investigation without any single arrest and the main offender on the run teasing the enforcers on Twitter, South Korean police have reportedly captured the first person involved in the Terra blockchain ecosystem collapse. The news about the arrest of Yoo Mo, the head of the business team of Terraform Labs, appeared in Korean media on Oct. 6, later the district prosecutor Choi Sung-kook confirmed the information to Forkast. The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office issued a bench....
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Do Kwon who has an Interpol notice and an arrest warrant against his name has not been cooperative with the investigation agencies. South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Wednesday issued an order for Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon to surrender his passport. The fugitive co-founder must hand over his Korean passport to authorities within 14 days of the said order. A failure to comply with the order will result in the cancellation of his passport altogether. The official order also warned that failure to comply will lead to the rejection of requests for re-issuance in the future.Another....
The collapse of the algorithmic stablecoin Terra and its native token LUNA remained a shocking event in the crypto space. The outcome was the loss of billions of dollars for many individual and institutional investors. It also threw the entire crypto industry into a historic crisis. Lots of changes have taken place following the fall of the stablecoin. Subsequently, some investigations and legal cases have been against the founder of Terraform Labs, Do Kwon. Firstly, the South Korean Prosecutors leveled some allegations against the Terra Chief. Related Reading: Polkadot Price Drops On....
The Terraform Labs co-founder faces charges in South Korea relating to the crash of the Terra ecosystems' cryptocurrencies. Interpol has reportedly issued a “Red Notice” to law enforcement worldwide for the arrest of Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon.South Korean prosecutors in Seoul on Monday told Bloomberg the international policing organization issued the notice in response to charges Kwon faces in South Korea related to the collapse of the Terra ecosystem.The news comes only a week after South Korean prosecutors reportedly asked Interpol to issue a “Red Notice” for Kwon on Sept. 19. A....
In his decision to dismiss the warrant, the judge reportedly considered that Yoo Mo had a residence and family ties in South Korea and was already barred from leaving the country. The warrant for Yoo Mo, the head of the business team of Terraform Labs, has reportedly been dismissed less than 48 hours after it had been issued.According to an Oct. 6 report from South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency, Judge Hong Jin-Pyo of the Seoul Southern District Court said it was difficult to see the “necessity and significance” of arresting Yoo. The prosecutor's office in the same jurisdiction reportedly....
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. […]