After the information about Pavel Durov's detention by the Paris prosecutor's office appeared, the events of the last month started to come together in a single puzzle. I do not claim to be true, but in my head it looks as follows.
There is such a person - Mark Karpeles, known for the Mt. Gox exchange. What's important: Karpeles is from France, and he has been convicted of various crimes several times. He later served as a witness in cases involving other exchanges (FTX, BTC-e, etc.). In June 2023, the US Department of Justice charged two Russians, Alexei Belyuchenko and Alexander Werner, with conspiracy to launder about 647,000 Bitcoin stolen during the 2014 Mt. Gox hack. However, Karpeles seems to have escaped prosecution - his name did not appear in the final charges. It seems that the case was never fully closed.
On July 5, 2024, information about payments to users of the bankrupt Mt. Gox exchange for more than $4 billion appeared. However, the process was not so smooth: payments were delayed and postponed. On the same day, all cryptocurrency, including TON, began to fall sharply in value due to expectations of a market collapse.
On July 8, 2024, a case was filed in France against an unidentified person, in which Pavel Durov appears as a witness. This was enough for his arrest, which is currently taking place. The case concerns illegal financial transactions, cybercrime, money laundering by an organized group, the provision of encryption and other violations, and is being handled by officers from the Center for Combating Cybercrime, as well as investigators from the National Anti-Corruption Directorate. The case also includes charges of possession of child pornography and drug distribution - recall that Mark Karpeles was just accused of creating Silk Road.
At the time, Durov was in Kazakhstan and apparently already knew what was in store for him. He was vacationing with his companion Yulia, of course, but he was also dealing with financial issues. After his visit, TON was included in the list of digital assets approved by the committee of the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC). The question seems to arise - why?
On July 25, 2024, Pavel Durov deletes his Telegram account, erases all correspondence, unlinks his phone number and username. And he does it so sloppily that it's as if his profile now doesn't exist. I even thought that he had blocked me, but it turned out that he had just created a new account that hadn't been online as long as Julia's account.
I think this case involves a French citizen, Marc Karpeles, who has been involved in numerous fraudulent schemes. I have two possible opinions on this:
- Either Pavel Durov has something to do with Mt. Gox's finances and the TON blockchain is involved in this scheme, as a huge amount of TON from early miners passed through Fragment;
- or France just needs Telegram to disclose correspondence with those involved in hacking Mt. Gox (including Russian citizens) and laundering huge amounts of Bitcoin money.
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