{"id":41294,"date":"2021-04-23T13:39:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T10:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=41294"},"modified":"2025-08-30T18:09:29","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:09:29","slug":"sixty-two-detained-in-turkey-over-ties-to-thodex-crypto-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/sixty-two-detained-in-turkey-over-ties-to-thodex-crypto-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixty-two detained in Turkey over ties to Thodex crypto exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish prosecutor&#8217;s office, as part of the investigation into the alleged exit scam of the Thodex bitcoin exchange, issued arrest warrants for 78 people connected with the platform. 62 of them have already been detained, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/cryptocurrency-technology-business-turkey-middle-east-cae86896f37aa0f9773eaf3418e9bb19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On April 22, Thodex<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/turkish-bitcoin-exchange-suspected-of-exit-scam\"> suspended trading<\/a> for several days, allegedly due to the company being handed to a &#8220;new partner.&#8221; According to media reports, this move affected more than 390,000 Thodex users.<\/p>\n<p>The company denied the accusations of an exit scam, and the exchange&#8217;s head Faruk Fatih \u00d6zer said he had no plans to disappear and described reports of money disappearing as not reflecting reality.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"tr\" dir=\"ltr\">8) I would also like to inform you about the next steps. I have never planned to seize people&#8217;s assets and run away, and therefore there is no shortage in the TRY-denominated portions of your balances on Thodex.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Faruk Fatih \u00d6zer (@farukfatihozer_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/farukfatihozer_\/status\/1385213358253686786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-turkey-crypto-idUSKBN2CA0QA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Reuters<\/a>, citing Istanbul police, on April 20 \u00d6zer flew to Albania. The country\u2019s justice ministry has issued a warrant for the Thodex founder and requested his extradition.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aa.com.tr\/en\/economy\/turkey-opens-probe-into-cryptocurrency-platform-thodex\/2216920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Anadolu<\/a>, the Commission for the Investigation of Financial Crimes blocked all Thodex bank accounts in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Back in April 2021, the Turkish central bank<a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/turkish-central-bank-bans-cryptocurrency-payments\"> announced a ban<\/a> on cryptocurrency payments for goods and services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish prosecutor&#8217;s office, as part of the investigation into the alleged exit scam of the Thodex bitcoin exchange, issued arrest warrants for 78 people connected with the platform. 62 of them have already been detained, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1166,1154,920],"class_list":["post-41294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-centralized-exchanges-cex","tag-crimes","tag-turkey"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"47","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41296,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41294\/revisions\/41296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}