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Former CEO of collapsed Mt.Gox bitcoin exchange arrested in Japan: reports

TOKYO (By Elaine Lies, Reuters) — Mark Karpeles, the former head of defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, was arrested on Saturday in connection with the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the virtual currency, Japanese media reports said. The French-born Karpeles, 30, is suspected of falsifying data on the outstanding balance of the exchange, at one point the world’s largest hub for trading the digital currency, they added.

 

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