The CEO of Thodex, a Turkish cryptocurrency exchange that abruptly halted trading on Wednesday, has denied accusations of a rug-pull and intends to return funds to investors shortly.
The real reason for halting trading and preventing withdrawals, CEO Fatih Faruk Özer said on Twitter yesterday, was to investigate suspicious abnormalities in 30,000 customer accounts discovered “during a three-month investment talk.” He did not say why the records were suspicious.
Billion-Dollar Rug Pull? Turkish Bitcoin Exchange Goes Dark
Özer added that the company is still recovering from a (previously undisclosed) cyberattack in April 2018 that drained 25 million Turkish liras (then around $6 million) from the exchange. The company’s investigation, completed last week, found evidence of further cyberattacks.
This morning, Turkish police detained 62 people, seized the company’s computers and froze its bank accounts, and the government is preparing to have Özer extradited from Albania, where he
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