Bitcoin data tampering case Company president 2 trial also guilty Tokyo High Court June 11, 17:17
In a case where a president of "Mount Gox", which was a management company that went bankrupt six years ago, was accused of tampering internal data and increasing the balance of the account at an exchange company of the cryptographic asset "Bitcoin" on the Internet, 2 The trial court, the Tokyo High Court, sentenced the first trial to a conviction sentence with a moratorium.
Defendant Marc Kalpress, 35, the president of Mount Gox, a Bitcoin exchange company, was accused of tampering with internal system data and inflating his account balance.
In the first instance, he was found guilty of being charged with funds from the account in the company's name, and he was found guilty, but he was found guilty of tampering with the data, and he filed an appeal and claimed innocence.
In the decision of the second trial on the 11th, Judge Mariko Goto, President of Tokyo High Court, said, "The president insisted that the company's intention was to increase the account balance, but illegally increase the account balance by inputting false data. It is clear that it is against the will of the company.” He dismissed the appeal, and sentenced him to two years and six months in prison and four years in suspension after the first trial.