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South Korean prosecutors had sought Kang's arrest last week along with two other executives including his younger sister, Kang Ji-Yeon, the CEO of two publicly traded Bithumb affiliates, Inbiogen (101140) and Bucket Studio (066410), according to local reports. Source
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The suspected real owner of South Korea’s largest crypto exchange Bithumb has been arrested on alleged embezzlement charges on Feb. 2 local time.According to local media reports, Kang Jong-hyun was arrested on charges of alleged embezzlement. The Seoul Southern District Court issued an arrest warrant for the businessman on Jan.
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Prosecutors are investigating transactions related to a specific person or entity moving the price of the coin to make a profit, they said. They plan to examine transaction details at other exchanges where the coin is listed, according to the report. Source
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Bithumb CEO Kang Ji-Yeon and two other executives are facing charges of embezzlement, breach of trust, and conducting fraudulent illegal transactions.On Wednesday, January 25, a Korean news publication reported that South Korean prosecutors are seeking the arrest of the chairman and owner of crypto exchange Bithumb Kang Jong-Hyun.Kang along with
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Kang and two other executives – including his younger sister, Kang Ji-Yeon, the CEO of two publicly-traded Bithumb affiliates, Inbiogen and Bucket Studio – were charged by the Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office with embezzlement, breach of trust, and fraudulent illegal transactions, according to local reports. Source
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission charged cryptocurrency lending firm Genesis Global Capital and crypto exchange Gemini with selling unregistered securities through Gemini’s “Earn” program. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission started the process of getting a default judgment in its case against Ooki DAO after the decentralized autonomous organization
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The ongoing saga of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb continues, this time with ruling from local courts.On Jan. 13 the South Korean Supreme Court finalized its ruling that the exchange must pay damages to investors over a 1.5-hour service outage on Nov. 12, 2017. According to a local news source,
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A local report states that the investigation will be conducted by a unit dedicated to “special tax investigations.”South Korean tax authorities are investigating local crypto exchange operator Bithumb Holdings. This is according to a Tuesday report by Yonhap News which states that the National Tax Service is reportedly investigating possible
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Former Chairman of Bithumb Holdings was recently acquitted of fraud charges. Source
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The South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is under a “special tax investigation” by the country’s National Tax Service (NTS), according to local reports.On Jan. 10 tax agents raided the exchange’s headquarters in the country’s capital city Seoul as a part of a compliance investigation. The investigation was carried out by
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