Report: Founders Of South African Exchange Abscond With $2.3 Billion In Bitcoin
Users of South African investment platform Africrypt are missing $2.3 billion in bitcoin after the founders have disappeared.Correction: When first published, this article described Africrytp as a cryptocurrency exchange. More accurately, it was a cryptocurrency investment platform.The founders of South African cryptocurrency investment platform Africrypt, two brothers named Ameer and Raees Cajee, have reportedly vanished, as has more than $2.3 billion in bitcoin belonging to clients.“A Cape Town law firm hired by investors say they can’t locate the brothers and has reported the matter to....
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