THELOGICALINDIAN - The Seoul Southern District Public Prosecutors Office has reportedly accusable two admiral of South Korean crypto barter Coinnest for accepting a allurement in barter for advertisement a cryptocurrency According to bounded media they accustomed 1 billion won US890000 account of cryptocurrencies mostly BTC
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Coinnest Execs Indicted for Accepting Bribe
The banking analysis administration of the Seoul Southern District Public Prosecutors’ Office said aftermost anniversary that it has accusable the CEO and COO of crypto barter Coinnest “on accuse of accepting a bribe,” Korea IT Times reported.
CEO Kim Ik-hwan and COO Cho accept been accused of accepting a allurement from the CEO of a aggregation gluttonous to account its cryptocurrency on Coinnest. Local media accredit to this bread alone as “S coin.”
In accession to indicting Coinnest’s executives, “The case additionally accusable addition Kim, the CEO of S Coin, on accuse of giving bribery, allurement the two Coinnest admiral to advice with the basic bill advertisement process,” the advertisement elaborated, adding:
Specifically, the duo “received a absolute of 110 bitcoins account 860 actor won [~$771,270]” on Feb. 5 and 6, the account aperture detailed, abacus that they additionally accustomed “2 actor S bill account 70 actor won [~$62,778] each” on Feb. 12 and 14.
The case believes that the admiral provided the issuer of S bread with the “unfair” accessibility of advertisement the coin, such as advertisement “without absolute assay of the technology of S coin and dispatch the advertisement date of S coin,” Yonhap detailed.
Previous Charges
The two admiral of Coinnest were additionally accusable on April 23 on a different charge. Korea IT Times explained that they were answerable with “violating the law on specific bread-and-butter crimes, including fraud, forth with the aggregation controlling Hong. At that time, Kim and his affair were doubtable of accepting embezzled money by affairs affected bill as if they existed.”
In April, all above crypto exchanges in South Korea jointly declared self-regulation beneath the advice of the Korean Blockchain Industry Association. However, Coinnest autonomous out. When the association announced that 12 out of its 23 barter associates had completed self-inspection in July, Coinnest was not amid them.
Coinnest, however, was one of the crypto exchanges that afresh completed implementing concise aegis measures, the Korea Internet and Aegis Agency (KISA) and the Korean Ministry of Science and Technology announced in August.
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