THELOGICALINDIAN - A absolute of 8000 bitcoins acceptance to Mirror Trading International MTI accept been traced while an added 29000 bitcoins could anon accommodated a agnate fate The traced bill which are admired at over 280 actor 4 billion rand represent a abeyant advance for abandoned MTI investors
Liquidators Want Court to Declare MTI a Ponzi Scheme
The latest revelations came anon afterwards the acceding of a final defalcation adjustment adjoin MTI by a South African court. Before this announcement, liquidators of the Ponzi arrangement had alone recovered 1,281 bitcoins that were surrendered to liquidators by MTI’s antecedent broker, FX Choice. As ahead appear by Bitcoin.com News, the 1,281 bitcoins were ultimately sold and added than $70 actor was aloft from the sale.
However, as a Moneyweb report explains, liquidators intend to altercate in favour of accepting MTI declared a Ponzi Scheme on their acknowledgment to cloister on September 8. This declaration, according to the report, makes it “easier to hunt bottomward funds the liquidators accept appropriately accord to the bankrupt estate.” The address additionally addendum that those against to the acknowledgment accept until August 31 to book their acknowledging affidavits.
Meanwhile, the address quotes Riaan van Rooyen, who is one of the liquidators, answer why it is important for investors to abode their claims adjoin MTI. Rooyen said:
Roadshow for MTI Investors Planned
Before its collapse in December 2020, MTI again claimed it had over 280,000 accounts and a majority of these belonged to investors based in South Africa. However, liquidators assert this cardinal will be bargain to amid 150,000 and 180,000 “once accounts opened in the name of ancestors pets and added artificial accounts are bare out.”
In the meantime, the address reveals that liquidators are additionally planning to barrage a civic roadshow to abetment MTI investors. This action is accepted to advice liquidators acquaintance as “many associates of MTI as accessible and to abetment them in abode their claims.”
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