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Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by notch898a »

m3kw9 wrote: post #24

He is probably better off getting caught and get his sentence over with than to live watching his back betting a country won’t turn him in for decades

Have you ever been in a jail cell? Almost every day in the US you see someone who decides to go out with guns blazing rather than go back.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by dannyw »

hiidrew wrote: post #13
janmo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ruja Ignatova is also suspected of hiding in Montenegro, she is behind the OneCoin ponzi scheme and has successfully been on the run for 5 years now. It appears that Do Kwon did a very rookie mistake by believing he could take a plane at the airport like every one else.

saw this from a couple of days ago - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...

Charge is not arrest

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by automatic6131 »

hiidrew wrote: post #13
janmo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ruja Ignatova is also suspected of hiding in Montenegro, she is behind the OneCoin ponzi scheme and has successfully been on the run for 5 years now. It appears that Do Kwon did a very rookie mistake by believing he could take a plane at the airport like every one else.

saw this from a couple of days ago - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...

tl;dr they arrested Ignatova's head of compliance for OneCoin

I hope this woman has knowledge of the whereabouts of Ignatova. Disgusting that you can get away with running a billion dollar ponzi, and get away with the loot too.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by hammock »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #12
xwdv wrote: post #6

Of course he’d be in Montenegro, a place with so much corruption it’s practically out in the open. Rot in Prison, Do Kwon.

Kwon was arrested by Montenegrin police.

Andrew Tate was arrested by Romanian police. What’s your point?

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by notch898a »

janmo wrote: post #17
input_sh wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not exactly a big airport, not a lot of flights: https://montenegroairports.com/en/podgorica-airport/ His last known whereabouts were in Serbia, and Belgrade - Podgorica have about five flights per day both ways.

If he flew from Serbia to Montenegro it would have just been completely dumb, crossing the land border would have been much safer for him. I suspect he was trying to leave for somewhere very far away but his Passport did not fool the airport staff

The question is why he wouldn't cross the land border and then fly from there. Customs is rarely checking passports as thoroughly on the way out as on the way in. The thinking was probably the risk was the same since he was entering the airport anyway, but failed to account for risk of having passport checked in then out instead of just out.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by consumer451 »

notch898a wrote: post #31
m3kw9 wrote: post #24

He is probably better off getting caught and get his sentence over with than to live watching his back betting a country won’t turn him in for decades

Have you ever been in a jail cell? Almost every day in the US you see someone who decides to go out with guns blazing rather than go back.

This sounds like Hollywood reality for white collar.

Here is actual reality:

> "Hey Do, I just want to let you know, jail is not that bad," Shkreli said. "So don't fret – I hope it doesn't happen. If it does happen ... it's not that bad."

- Martin Shkreli

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/08/pharma-bro-mart...

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#38

Post by hammock »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #20
brookst wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Death Valley can't be a desert because it rained there today"

> "Death Valley can't be a desert because it rained there today" Not arguing for or against Montenegrin corruption. Just saying that this incident doesn't contribute to the corruption theory.

Was parent comment really suggesting that this incident (Do Kwon’s arrest) contributes to the corruption theory?

I read it as suggesting that Do Kwon’s decision to take up residence there contributed to the corruption theory

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#39

Post by arcticbull »

Apocryphon wrote: post #30

Between this and the Justin Sun news yesterday is this some kind of crypto crackdown?

Justin Sun and Do Kwon are [edit for clarity: among] the worst of the space, so IMO, this represents a crackdown on scammers not on the ecosystem.

Everyone should like this, even me :)

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Post by phphphphp »

m3kw9 wrote: post #24

He is probably better off getting caught and get his sentence over with than to live watching his back betting a country won’t turn him in for decades

He’ll be watching his back in prison, he’s got access to billions of dollars — or, at least, is perceived to. He has wronged a lot of people, too. Also, prison is a one way street: if he stays on the run, and some day things do get to the point where he would feel safer in prison, he could hand himself in. Once he’s in prison, he has no choice left.
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