'테라•루나' 권도형 몬테네그로서 체포 위조여권 덜미
Terraform co-founder Do Kwon has been indicted in the U.S. following his arrest in Montenegro with a fake passport.
The entrepreneur has been on South Korean authorities' radar for allegedly defrauding investors in a multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency scheme.
Lee Seung-jae has more.
The whereabouts of Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon had been shrouded in mystery for nearly a year.
That is until police in Montenegro announced on Thursday local time that the wanted CEO of the blockchain firm is in custody.
Despite Kwon denying the fact that he has been on run, he was finally arrested at an airport for having falsified documents.
Do Kwon has been under investigation for the past 11 months, ever since the massive Terra-LUNA crash which wiped out about 40 billion US dollars from the crypto market.
He's being accused of fraud and tax evasion.
It's estimated that 200-thousand investors in South Korea alone were affected by the collapse of his firm's algorithmic stablecoin.
While the next step is for the South Korean government to seek extradition to bring Do Kwon to South Korea, there may be some obstacles in the way.
Firstly, South Korea does not have an extradition agreement with Montenegro.
On top of that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Terraform Labs and Kwon with defrauding U.S. investors, so the U.S. is also likely to seek to extradite him.
And while the U.S. does not have an extradition treaty with Montenegro either, the situation may well become a fight to see who can get their hands on the disgraced crypto-CEO first.
If South Korea is able to extradite Kwon, the prosecution will likely focus on revealing that the profit structure of Luna and Terra was fraudulent, and that it was nothing more than a Ponzi scheme.
Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.
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2023-03-24, 09:00 (KST)
