Crypto fraud guy

This initialed crypto fraud guy employs a security team that has a history of killings.

Maybe the crypto guys killed were possible witnesses.

Sam Bankman-Fried

FTX

Death In Crypto: People Want To Know Why 3 Top Crypto Execs Died Just Weeks Apart

Three of the most prominent figures in the cryptocurrency industry have all inexplicably died in recent weeks.

News of the unbelievable and surprising demise has caused a frenzy on social media in the form of conspiracy theories and calls for explanations.

Nikolai Mushegian, age 29, Tiantian Kullander, 30, and Vyacheslav Taran, age 53, were three outstanding crypto luminaries who passed away within a matter of weeks of each other, as reported by KCEN TV.

Death In Crypto: Vyacheslav Taran

Vyacheslav Taran, a Russian entrepreneur, recently died in a strange helicopter crash near Monaco, making his death the most recent of a string of disasters that have remained unexplained.

There have been three sudden deaths of cryptocurrency entrepreneurs recently, and Taran is the third.

After taking off from Lausanne in Switzerland, the helicopter crashed in the tourist town of Villefranche-sur-Mer, killing Taran, 53.

Taran, is the co-founder of trading and investment platform Libertex and Forex Club, which experienced both success and turmoil. Investor fraud allegations surfaced against Forex Club in 2018.

Social media users speculated that the death of Taran was not just a coincidence, despite the fact that his career success was tainted by a financial controversy.

The Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reportedly stated, without providing any evidence, that Taran was a “billionaire crypto businessman with potential ties to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service,” as reported by The Daily Mail.

Tiantian Kullander

Tiantian Kullander, 30 years old, co-founded Amber Group, a digital currency trading platform recently valued at $3 billion. The company said that Kullander had died “unexpectedly in his sleep” on November 23.

After starting Amber in 2017 with a group of finance insiders, including former Goldman Sachs Group Inc and Morgan Stanley employees, he played a crucial part in the company’s rapid rise, which included the funding of additional $100 million.

Kullander “co-founded Amber and built it into a multi-billion fintech unicorn,” as it was described. And he also served on the board of directors for the e-sports company Fnatic.

Only that Kullander died in his sleep could be confirmed; no other information was supplied.

Nikolai Mushegian

Nikolai Mushegian, co-ounder of MakerDAO, a cryptocurrency lending platform, was reportedly found dead in a Puerto Rican lake just hours after tweeting that he suspected U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies of plotting to “kill” him.

His family does not suspect foul play, as the young millionaire had a history of mental health issues.

However, some of his friends and colleagues have bought into the unsubstantiated rumors that his death was suspicious.

The news of Mushegian’s death, combined with his final tweet and other gloomy posts about fighting “evil people”  has fomented conspiracy theories on the internet and in the small but closely knit Puerto Rican cryptocurrency community. – Source

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried says he’ll testify before Congress

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the failed crypto exchange FTX, has agreed to testify before the House Financial Services Committee next week as questions and confusion swirl about the collapse of his companies.

On Friday, he tweeted that he’s “willing to testify on [December] 13th,” and said he will “try to be helpful, and to shed what like I can” about several of lawmakers’ concerns, including FTX US’ solvency, “pathways” that could return “value” to users, what he thinks about what led to the crash, and, finally, his “own failings.”

“I had thought of myself as a model CEO, who wouldn’t become lazy or disconnected,” Bankman-Fried wrote on Twitter. “Which made it that much more destructive when I did. I’m sorry. Hopefully people can learn from the difference between who I was and who I could have been.”

His tweets are in response to requests from several members of Congress who demanded testimony. – Source

Sam Bankman-Fried: I hope to make money to pay people back

Disgraced crypto boss Sam Bankman-Fried says he hopes to start a new business to make enough money to pay back victims of the FTX collapse.

The 30-year-old faces several federal investigations into his former company’s handling of funds.

Speaking in a luxury complex in the Bahamas, the former billionaire denies fraud but says he was “not nearly as competent as I thought I was”.

He admits worrying about possible arrest while “ruminating at night”.

The FTX crypto exchange allowed customers to trade normal money for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

It was the second largest in the world, trading about $10bn of crypto coins every day.

But last month it was revealed that FTX and Mr Bankman-Fried’s separate company – Alameda Research – were financially unstable.

In just eight days everything came crashing down and bankruptcy was filed.

It is estimated that more than a million FTX users are locked out of their crypto wallets and cannot access their funds. – Source