Turkish police arrest 62 other people related to alleged $2 billion cryptocurrency theft on Thodex Exchange

Turkish police arrested 62 other people in an investigation similar to the alleged fraud of the previous Thodex cryptocurrency exchange in the day.

What happened: According to Turkish state news firm Anadolu, 78 other people are involved in the Thodex case, but so far only 62 have been discovered.

The company’s bank accounts were also reportedly frozen through the country’s money crime investigation committee.

As Benzinga reported yesterday, rumors that Thodex founder Faruk Fatih Ozer fled to Thailand with $2 billion in user funds.

The day before yesterday, the inventory exchange announced that it would suspend its activity for 4 to five days and customers were unable to recover their funds.

According to Anadolu, the Turkish government opened an investigation into Thodex on Thursday for annoying fraud following a lawyer named Abdullah Usame Ceran.

According to him, he fled to Thailand with the cash of the nearly 700,000 alleged users of the inventory exchange.

See also: $2 billion in cryptocurrencies can be stolen when Turkish exchange stops trades

The official online exchange page a message stating that “many claims about the Thodex platform are unfounded”.

The announcement indicates that there have been no asset thefts.

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