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Prosecutor Seeks Thousands of Years of Prison for Missing CEO of Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex

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Prosecutor Seeks Thousands of Years of Prison for Missing CEO of Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex


Members of the team of the now defunct Turkish crypto exchange Thodex may receive thousands of years in prison, if the court backs the prosecutor’s plea in the case. The trading platform’s CEO has been missing for the past year since Thodex suspended activities in a suspected exit scam. Turkey Seeks up to 40,000 Years Jail Time for Thodex Defendants


Faruk Fatih Ozer, founder and chief executive of the crypto exchange Thodex, and another 20 people involved in its operations, should each get up to 40,564 years of jail time, according to a Turkish prosecutor.


The indictment was quoted by Demiroren news agency and Hurriyet, about a year after the platform stopped trading. The defendants are accused of establishing a criminal organization, fraud, and laundering of proceeds from illicit activities.


The 28-year-old Ozer has been missing since last year and is still wanted on a red notice from Interpol, despite efforts by Turkish law enforcement to locate him in several countries. He was last seen on footage from Istanbul airport which emerged a year ago.


Thodex became popular during the latest crypto boom which attracted many Turks looking to protect their savings from the high inflation of their national fiat currency, the Turkish lira. The exchange, which had around 400,000 investors, suddenly went offline last spring.


According to local media reports at the time, Ozer fled to Albania with $2 billion of their money. In a statement issued from an unknown location in April 2021, he pledged to repay customers and return to his home country to face justice, Bloomberg notes in a report.


The Turkish indictment quotes losses of 356 million lira ($24 million). However, according to an estimate in a Chainalysis report published in January, the figure should be much higher — $2.6 billion. The blockchain forensics company claims: We should note that roughly 90% of the total value lost to rug pulls in 2021 can be attributed to one fraudulent centralized exchange, Thodex, whose CEO disappeared soon after the exchange halted users’ ability to withdraw funds.


More than 60 people were detained and six jailed after Thodex collapsed. Turkish authorities launched fraud investigations against it and another Turkish trading platform, Vebitcoin, which also ceased operations after the central bank of Turkey prohibited the use of cryptocurrencies for payments. In October, another major Turkish exchange, Coinzo, also terminated its crypto trading services. Tags in this story Court, Crypto, crypto exchange, Cryptocurrencies, Cryptocurrency, defendants, Exchange, Exchanges, Executive, Executives, Exit Scam, founder, Fraud, indictment, prison, prosecutor, Scam, thodex, trading platform, Turkey, Turkish


Do you think Turkey will succeed in its attempts to arrest and convict the founder of Thodex and his suspected accomplices? Tell us in the comments section below. Lubomir Tassev


Lubomir Tassev is a journalist from tech-savvy Eastern Europe who likes Hitchens’s quote: “Being a writer is what I am, rather than what I do.” Besides crypto, blockchain and fintech, international politics and economics are two other sources of inspiration. UAE-Based Crypto Exchange Bitoasis Obtains Provisional Approval From Dubai"s New Regulator EXCHANGES | 3 days ago Coinbase Makes Changes to Services in Canada, Japan, Singapore to Comply With Local Crypto Regulations EXCHANGES | Mar 26, 2022


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