The CEO stole over $1 million in cryptocurrency from customers’ crypto wallets, said the DOJ. bitcoin
The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Cryptsy has been indicted in the U.S. The 17-count indictment charges the crypto exchange executive with “tax evasion, wire fraud, money laundering, computer fraud, tampering with records, documents, and other objects, and destruction of records in a federal investigation,” the DOJ said.The U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday that Paul E. Vernon, the founder, operator, and chief executive officer of Project Investors Inc.
According to the indictment, Vernon solicited investors to store and trade cryptocurrencies on the Cryptsy platform. At no time during this time period did Vernon disclose this theft of his customers’ funds from his customers’ Cryptsy wallets. In November 2015, Vernon abruptly moved to China and publicly told Cryptsy customers about the 2014 hack and loss of bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies.
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