Do Kwon perde $26M em ativos ilegais para promotores suíços
- Os promotores na Suíça apreenderam oficialmente ativos ilícitos no valor de $26 milhões pertencentes a Do Kwon.
- Os ativos consistem em ativos digitais, incluindo Bitcoin (BTC), bem como moeda fiduciária.
- 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.
Do Kwon, o fundador do ecossistema Terra, que entrou em colapso em 2022 e gerou uma série de colapsos de várias empresas de criptomoedas, vem enfrentando a ira de reguladores e investidores em todo o mundo, principalmente nos Estados Unidos e na Coreia do Sul. No entanto, os promotores da Suíça apreenderam oficialmente ativos ilícitos no valor de $26 milhões pertencentes ao empresário cripto, de acordo com a mídia local.
De acordo com um relatório 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.
Conforme relatado anteriormente pela Bitnation, Do Kwon foi colocado em uma prisão montenegrina por tentar entrar no país usando passaportes falsos e documentos de viagem. Enquanto isso, em uma recente audiência no tribunal, ele alegou que não sabia que seus passaportes eram falsos, 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.
Jornalista cripto com mais de 3 anos de experiência em DeFi, NFT, metaverso, etc. Parth trabalhou com grandes meios de comunicação no mundo cripto e financeiro e ganhou experiência e conhecimento em cultura criptográfica depois de sobreviver a mercados de baixa e alta ao longo dos anos.
