{"id":34667,"date":"2022-08-30T08:06:38","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=34667"},"modified":"2022-08-30T08:06:41","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T12:06:41","slug":"thodex-crypto-exchange-founder-arrested-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/thodex-crypto-exchange-founder-arrested-in-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Thodex Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-thodex-founder-faruk-fatih-ozer-went-missing-in-2021-taking-money-from-400-000-users-with-him\">Thodex founder, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Faruk+Fatih+Ozer&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Faruk Fatih Ozer<\/a> went missing in 2021, taking money from 400,000 users with him.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"913\" height=\"461\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-238.png\" alt=\"Thodex Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested in Albania\" class=\"wp-image-34669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-238.png 913w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-238-300x151.png 300w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-238-768x388.png 768w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-238-150x76.png 150w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-238-750x379.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\" \/><figcaption>Thodex Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested in Albania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement from the <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/iran-blockchain-association-iba-banned-by-the-government.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turkish Interior Ministry<\/a> on Tuesday, the founder of one of Turkey's biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Thodex, which turned out to be an exit scam, has been arrested in Albania.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last year, Faruk Fatih Ozer's exchange suddenly stopped working, and the exchange's founder and CEO ran away to <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/turkish-prosecutor-demands-jail-time-for-thodex.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Albania<\/a>, leaving almost 400,000 members in the dark and unable to access their money. The oldest newspaper in Turkey, Cumhuriyet, wrote on Tuesday that users had put $2 billion worth of cryptocurrencies into the exchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Albania's <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/bulgaria-stock-exchange-reportedly-set-to-list-bitcoin-and-ethereum-etns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Minister of Internal Affairs<\/a>, Bledar UCI, told his Turkish counterpart that Ozer had been arrested in Vlora and that biometric results had confirmed his identity. His extradition is already underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thodex founder, Faruk Fatih Ozer went missing in 2021, taking money from 400,000 users with him. According to a statement from the Turkish Interior Ministry on Tuesday, the founder of one of Turkey&#8217;s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, Thodex, which turned out to be an exit scam, has been arrested in Albania. Last year, Faruk Fatih Ozer&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":34669,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[1437,181,183],"class_list":["post-34667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-money-laundering","tag-thodex","tag-turkey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/image-238.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}