THELOGICALINDIAN - A Turkish cryptocurrency barter with about 400000 users has been accused of affairs an avenue betray Its CEO has reportedly fled Turkey allegedly demography 2 billion of chump funds with him The badge accept an arrest accreditation for the CEO and 62 bodies accept already been bedfast in affiliation with the case
Crypto Exchange Accused of Exit Scam
Turkish cryptocurrency barter Thodex is offline and its CEO has reportedly gone missing. Thousands of investors are afraid that their funds accept been baseborn back they are clumsy to admission their accounts.
A account on the exchange’s website capacity that the belvedere is “temporarily closed” to abode an “abnormal aberration in the aggregation accounts.”
Local media appear that Thodex’s founder, Faruk Fatih Ozer, has fled the country to Albania, allegedly demography $2 billion of investors’ funds with him. Demiroren News Agency appear a photo which it claims to be Ozer abrogation Istanbul Airport.
Turkish authorities accept issued an all-embracing arrest accreditation for Ozer, the state-run account bureau Anadolu Bureau reported. Interpol again issued a red apprehension for Ozer on Friday. Turkish badge address said that the country’s autogenous abbot and badge arch batten with their Albanian counterparts on Thursday to seek Ozer’s arrest.
Thousands of users accept filed complaints adjoin Thodex adage that they accept been scammed. They are clumsy to admission their accounts and are afraid that their accumulation may be irretrievable.
A advocate who filed a bent complaint adjoin Ozer said Thodex had 400,000 users, of which 390,000 were active. However, Ozer disagreed, claiming that alone 30,000 users accept been afflicted by the bearings and that letters about $2 billion of losses are “unfounded.”
Police searched the company’s Istanbul offices and bedeviled abstracts on Thursday. Arrest warrants accept been issued for 78 suspects and badge accept so far bedfast 62 bodies in eight cities, including Istanbul, in affiliation to the case.
Cryptocurrencies accept afresh gained popularity amid some Turkish citizens attractive to assure their accumulation from aerial aggrandizement and biconcave lira. Turkey’s axial coffer afresh banned the use of cryptocurrencies as a agency of payment. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has alleged for abrupt adjustment of cryptocurrencies, admonishing of the ascent cardinal of pyramid schemes in the crypto markets.
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