After Two Police Raids, Bitcoin Exchange Bithumb Up for Sale
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After Two Police Raids, Bitcoin Exchange Bithumb Up for Sale

THELOGICALINDIAN - The South Korean behemoth to be awash to the accomplished applicant for up to 600 million

Bithumb, the better cryptocurrency barter in South Korea, is allegedly up for auction to the accomplished bidder, according to the South Korean account aperture Herald.

Responsible for added than 50% of the calm trading aggregate with 4.77 actor users, Bithumb is advised the primary disciplinarian of cryptocurrency trading in the country. 

According to the account report, Bithumb Holdings is now aggravating to advertise its 74% pale in Bithumb Korea. Several buyers accept already beatific belletrist of intent, alms amid $430 actor and $604 actor for the exchange. The absorbed parties are alien at the time.

The Seoul Metropolitan badge are currently investigating the exchange’s administrator Lee Jung Hoon for incurring deliberate broker loss of ~$25 actor and artifice acreage responsibilities. The badge accept additionally raided the barter alert this month.

This makes affairs Bithumb beneath than easy.

The Korean annex of KPMG, Samjong KPMG, is in allegation of the auction and administration acquiescence with bounded laws. The client will additionally be amenable for implementing the revised bill of the Special Payments Act starting from March 2021. The revised bill lays the basal requirements for advertisement and operation processes, regulates licenses for agenda asset account providers, and ensures acquiescence with FATF recommendations.

According to bounded account outlets, the South Korean advance cyberbanking industry perceives the auction of Bithumb Holdings as an accomplishment for investors to abate themselves of the acknowledged and authoritative disputes, balance their investment, and avenue the bazaar unscathed. 

BK Global Consortium was accepted to acquirement in 2024. The accord was scrapped afterwards the broker bootless to pay the abounding amount. The amount at the time was allegedly $345 million.