The couple who spent 7 million of the 10.5 million dollars of the wrong deposit were charged
An Australian woman accused of stealing $10.5 million worth of digital currency that was mistakenly deposited into her bank account by a brokerage firm has been charged after being arrested while leaving the country and will appear in court in a month.
An Australian woman accused of stealing $10.5 million in digital currency that was mistakenly deposited into her bank account by a brokerage firm has been remanded to appear in court in a month after being arrested while leaving the country.
Thivamanugari Maniol and her partner, Jatinder Singh, appeared in court in the city on Tuesday via video link from the Melbourne jail.
In May 2021, a digital currency trading app called Crypto.com mistakenly deposited $10.47 million to Ms. Maniol instead of refunding $100. The company that owns the app didn't notice the deposit error until the annual audit in December.
According to the court, the user account of Crypto.com was in the name of Mr. Singh, but Mrs. Maniol used her bank account to buy and sell cryptocurrency through this user account.
