The cryptocurrency leaked is worth billions of dollars or two arrested doctors March 12 6:42
In a case where two doctors were arrested on the suspicion of exchanging part of a huge crypto asset leaked from a so-called cryptocurrency = a major crypto asset exchange company "Coin Check" for another crypto asset, the two joined together Interviews with investigators revealed that the company had probably exchanged billions of dollars.
In January, a cryptocurrency exchange company called "CoinCheck", a cryptocurrency exchange company called "Coin Check", leaked about 58 billion yen worth of cryptographic assets called "NEM", and exchanged at a lower price than usual on a dark anonymous site "Dark Web". Was called.
The Metropolitan Police Department has proceeded to identify the person who responded to the exchange, and a company officer in Namiwa-ku, Osaka, Masami Kitamoto (39) and a doctor in Obihiro, Hokkaido, Takayoshi Doi (30) exchanged hundreds of millions of yen each. He was arrested on November 11 for allegedly violating the Organized Crime Penalties Act.
A subsequent investigation revealed that the leaked "NEMs" exchanged by the two people were estimated to be worth several billion yen in total, according to interviews with investigators.
It means that they brought the exchanged "NEM" to exchanges in Japan and abroad and made a large profit.
According to the Metropolitan Police Department, Kitamoto admitted to the investigation, "I thought it was a chance to make money," and Doi stated that he could not speak.
The Metropolitan Police Department is investigating that there are other persons who have responded to the exchange and is investigating the criminal groups involved in the spill itself.