Do Kwon verliest ter waarde van $26M aan illegale activa aan Zwitserse aanklagers

• Aanklagers in Zwitserland hebben officieel beslag gelegd op illegale activa ter waarde van $26 miljoen die eigendom zijn van Do Kwon.
• De activa bestaan uit digitale activa, waaronder Bitcoin (BTC), evenals fiat-valuta.
• The seized assets were kept in the digital asset bank “Signum” in Zurich.
• The assets were seized at the request of the New York Federal Prosecutors’ Office and the SEC.

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Do Kwon, de grondlegger van het Terra-ecosysteem, dat in 2022 instortte en een reeks instortingen van meerdere cryptobedrijven veroorzaakte, wordt geconfronteerd met de woede van regelgevers en investeerders over de hele wereld, met name in de Verenigde Staten en Zuid-Korea. De aanklagers in Zwitserland hebben echter officieel beslag gelegd op illegale activa ter waarde van $26 miljoen die toebehoren aan de crypto-ondernemer, volgens lokale media. 

Volgens een rapport from Digital Asset, Switzerland’s Federal Prosecutor has reportedly seized about 34 billion won ($26 million) worth of assets belonging to Do Kwon, which were kept in the digital asset bank “Signum” in Zurich, the largest city in Switzerland. The assets consist of digital assets, including Bitcoin (BTC), as well as fiat currency, and were seized on the request of the New York Federal Prosecutors’ Office and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

It is crucial to note that Signum calls itself the first “digital asset bank in the world” and was opened in Switzerland and Singapore in 2017. The bank also opened a hub in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 

Moreover, the assets seized by Swiss prosecutors belong to Do Kwon, along with former Chai Corporation CEO Chang-joon Han, former head of Terraform Labs’ research team Nicholas Platias, and the Terraform Labs Corporation. The local reports noted that “the size of the frozen assets is almost twice the size of the assets recently disclosed to foreign media by South Korean prosecutors.”

“Kwon and accomplices have more than $13 million (about 16.96 billion won) in funds in Signum,” Dan Sung Han, head of the Financial Securities Crime Division at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office, said in an interview with Bloomberg on June 8.

Zoals eerder gemeld door Bitnation, is Do Kwon in een Montenegrijnse gevangenis gezet omdat hij probeerde het land binnen te komen met vervalste paspoorten en reisdocumenten. Ondertussen beweerde hij tijdens een recente rechtszitting dat hij wist niet dat zijn paspoorten vals waren, adding that he got them from a “Chinese agency.” 

Do Kwon and Chong-joon have been jailed in Spuž, due to something called “extradition detention” and will remain behind bars until the judge decides where they will be extradited.

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