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...Mark Karpelès, chief executive of the defunct bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, has been found guilty of falsifying electronic records by a Japanese court and sentenced to two years and six months in prison....
...Mark Karpelès, the former chief executive currently fighting charges of embezzlement in Tokyo, controls the company that owns almost 90 per cent of Mt Gox....
...Answers to the $473m question, representing 7 per cent of the entire bitcoin market in 2014, have been slowly emerging but the company's former CEO Mark Karpelès is still looking for answers....
...According to courtroom reports from the Nikkei newspaper, the defence for Mark Karpelès – a 32 year-old French national – said there was “absolutely no” misuse of customer funds....
...But as police investigated the collapse and Tokyo prosecutors began building a criminal case of embezzlement against Mt Gox founder Mark Karpeles, part of the missing trove was found....
...22:33 To: Mark Karpeles I can’t tell how big an issue it will be to be short 80k BTC (*80,000 bitcoin) if the price goes to $100 or something....
...Japanese prosecutors on Friday accused Mark Karpelès, 30, of misappropriating Y315m ($2.6m) deposited by bitcoin investors at Mt Gox about six months before its collapse in early 2014....
...Japanese police have arrested Mark Karpelès, the head of the bankrupt Japan-based bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, who is alleged to have manipulated the computer system to inflate his account....
...Mark Karpelès, who was initially accused of manipulating the Mt Gox computer system and inflating the size of his own company account, has been in police detention in Tokyo without formal charges since the...
...It was working by squeezing the hell out of Mark Karpeles, a seemingly distressed short in the system. Was the Mt.Gox short squeeze solely responsible for the bitcoin bubble of 2014?...
...On Sunday afternoon, in a central Tokyo detention centre, Japanese police began questioning Mark Karpelès, founder and former head of Mt Gox, the bitcoin exchange platform that collapsed last year....
...(FT) Police probe bitcoin collapse Police in Tokyo hope the interrogation of Mark Karpeles, the founder and former head of bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, will shed some light on the collapse of the company last...
...At its peak, the holding company run by Mt Gox chief Mark Karpelès employed some 30 people, some of them on short-term contracts....
...Under questioning from Joshua Dratel, Mr Ulbricht’s attorney, Jared Der-Yeghiayan, a special agent with the Department of Homeland Security, said he suspected Mark Karpeles, the founder of Mt Gox, the leading...
...He said Mr Ulbricht was the “fall guy” and he plans to argue that Mark Karpèles, the founder of Mt Gox, “set up” Mr Ulbricht....
...Mark Karpelès, former chief executive of MtGox, has said he was unaware that any coins were missing until late in February, weeks after users began to report difficulties withdrawing funds....
...Using the DHS agent’s own words, Mr Dratel read emails and sworn affidavits which revealed that Mr Der-Yeghiayan believed for nearly two years Mark Karpèles, the founder of Mt Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange...
...Mr Ulbricht’s lawyer conceded his client created Silk Road but said he sold it and was later set up — by Mark Karpelès, the founder of Mt Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange until its collapse, or someone...
...Ulbricht was framed — perhaps by Mark Karpèles, the founder of Mt Gox, the largest bitcoin exchange until its collapse, or someone else — and lured back only when the real Dread Pirate Roberts felt law enforcement...
...The control systems set up under Mt Gox chief Mark Karpelès were so basic that the thefts went undetected, he claims. “There were no processes to realise that coins were leaking,” says Mr Maurice....
...Gox went down not so much because of a security vulnerability as claimed by CEO Mark Karpeles but rather due to a more conventional problem: potentially fraudulent transactions....
...Mark Karpelès could not be reached for comment....
...At around noon in Tokyo the company’s website was taken offline, shortly after a prominent group of Bitcoin promoters posted a statement denouncing Mt Gox chief executive Mark Karpelès, writes The FT’s Ben...
...Mt Gox chief Mark Karpelès has stood down from the board of the Bitcoin Foundation, the de facto governing body of the most widespread virtual currency, as the withdrawal freeze on his Tokyo-based platform...
...“[Mt Gox] had certain old format wallets which were used in the past and which, Mt Gox thought, no longer held any Bitcoins,” Mark Karpelès, chief executive of the exchange, said in a statement posted online...
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