THELOGICALINDIAN - Arrest warrants accept reportedly been issued to three advisers of a baby South Korean cryptocurrency barter including its adumbrative administrator The three are doubtable of artifice and abstraction according to bounded media
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Arrest Warrants for Crypto Exchange’s Employees
On Monday, bounded media appear that arrest warrants accept been issued to advisers of a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange. “Three of the company’s executives, who accomplish basic bill trading armpit HTS Coin, were arrested for [suspicion of] artifice and embezzlement,” Money Today wrote.
The Financial Investigation Division 2 of the South Korean Prosecutor’s Office “demanded a accreditation for three employees, including…[the] CEO of HTS Coin,” Token Post detailed, abacus that the added two advisers are a affairs developer and a arrangement operations manager. The account aperture elaborated:
The advertisement explained that the three are additionally doubtable of “deceiving investors, [by] assuming to” accept cryptocurrencies “on the computer ancillary after accepting absolute cryptocurrencies.”
“The case believes that they accept falsified” annal and “used the money in the customer’s annual as a claimed annual of the exchange,” Joongang added.
Responding to media reports, the barter acquaint a apprehension Monday on its website advancement that “All casework except Korean won deposits, such as Korean won withdrawals, bread deposits, and bread withdrawals, are operating normally,” clarifying:
On-Going Investigations
According to Asiae, an “interrogation of the suspects afore the arrest was captivated in the southern allotment of Seoul on the morning of the aforementioned day,” adding that in March the “prosecutors searched three basic bill exchanges including Coinnest, and it was appear that HTS Coin was included in the access analysis at that time.”
Joongang accepted this report, advertence that “prosecutors searched three basic bill exchanges including HTS Coin, Coinnest, and Komid aftermost March.”
The account aperture added conveyed that “the case has been investigating the actionable acts of basic bill trading sites” in accord with the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) beneath the administration of the Financial Services Commission (FSC). In March, “the analysis resulted in the arrest of four admiral including CEO Kim Ik-hwan [of] Coinnest…Kim was handed over to balloon aftermost month.”
Last anniversary the case additionally started investigating South Korea’s better cryptocurrency barter Upbit as the regulators appear the widening probe of crypto exchanges. Money Today emphasized, “however, in the case of Upbit, there is no suspicion of abstraction clashing Coinnest and HTS.”
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