Faruk Fatih Ozer, the founder and CEO of the Turkish cryptocurrency trading platform Thodex, is currently facing extradition back to Turkey, where he could face a 40,564-year prison sentence.
Ozer was arrested in Albania last month after allegedly fleeing the country with $2 billion in investor assets in 2021. According to local media, Ozer and a few other Thodex employees are facing prison sentences of more than 40,000 years. In the lawsuit, twenty-one defendants are on trial. With nearly 400,000 members and $2 billion in cryptocurrencies, Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
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Faruk Fatih Ozer, the founder and CEO of the Turkish cryptocurrency trading platform Thodex, is currently facing extradition back to Turkey, where he could face a 40,564-year prison sentence.
Ozer was arrested in Albania last month after allegedly fleeing the country with $2 billion in investor assets in 2021. According to local media, Ozer and a few other Thodex employees are facing prison sentences of more than 40,000 years. In the lawsuit, twenty-one defendants are on trial. With nearly 400,000 members and $2 billion in cryptocurrencies, Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges.
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