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Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

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Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#91
post #44

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As someone working in the space since 2014, there is a much longer list. DYOR.

lol, trust me, I've been following very closely too since about 2017. I think these folks are S tier. Not that there's not a ton more. It's hard to point to someone who did more damage to the space than Kwon in terms of sheer notional value and confidence destruction. I mostly follow this space for the drama and crime so I'm pretty up to date on the, er, personalities involved.

It's great you've taken an interest, but crypto has been around for much longer than 2017 and the lunacy traces back way further.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#92
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone working in the space since 2014, there is a much longer list. DYOR.

lol, trust me, I've been following very closely too since about 2017. I think these folks are S tier. Not that there's not a ton more. It's hard to point to someone who did more damage to the space than Kwon in terms of sheer notional value and confidence destruction. I mostly follow this space for the drama and crime so I'm pretty up to date on the, er, personalities involved.

Based on public information only, SBF could be perfectly added to your tier.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#93

It's always greed and hubris that does these people in. Who in their right mind would get on an international flight with an Interpol arrest warrant? He could have disappeared off to the countryside and lived in obscurity, but no. He went to Montenegro .

If you had been to Montenegro, countryside and obscurity is not that far from truth...

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#94

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 :)

Coinbase, a publically traded exchange, was also served a Wells Notice. This is a crackdown on the system.

I would put money that as soon as they can figure out where the hell CZ is, that Binance is next in line.

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#96
post #89

Wrong country to hide. Montenegro is a Nato member, and a US ally, and will do whatever the US say. Dritan Abazovic (the prime minister) is himself half Albanian, half Montenegrin, and he is very pro western. You can't hide in pro US countries. He should have maybe taken a train to Serbia (not a US ally), then a plane to Russia and hide there. Ps. For some reason criminals think small countries are safe, but capturin…

So far he isn't wanted in the US, but in South Korea

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#97

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Ross literally hired hitmen to kill someone who owed him money. The fact that he didn’t know it was an undercover agent (pro tip if you hire a hit man and you aren’t customarily in ‘that life’ you are always hiring an undercover agent) is irrelevant. He still required and received ‘proof’ of the deed, a photo of the aftermath, staged of course. He was even cold blooded with the ‘collateral damage’ of the intended vic…

If that actually happened, why didn't they prosecute him for it?

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Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#98
post #50

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

He was arrested using a fake passport (or some other falsified document) in an airport. Sounds like the timing was just coincidental.

And he may have been desperately on the run after the crackdown on everyone else

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#99

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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.

Only thing about a land border between Serbia and Montenegro is that they might get even more suspicious than an airport about WhyTF a random Korean is there.

You can just hike your way around the border

Re: Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro: Interior Minister

#100
post #32
post #13

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

Charge is not arrest

From the DOJ link above, first paragraph:

DILKINSKA was extradited from Bulgaria yesterday and will be presented before United States Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn later today.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/bulgarian-woman-charged...>

She is in US custody.

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