Bitcoins withdrawn from Africrypt accounts in South Africa
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The men founded a cryptocurrency investment company, after which they disappeared with the bitcoins of the platform users.
In South Africa, the two brothers who founded the cryptocurrency investment company Africrypt disappeared along with 69,000 bitcoin platform users worth $ 3.6 billion. Bloomberg.
It is noted that in April, the eldest of the brothers and the head of the company, Amir Kaji, said that the company had been hacked. He asked clients not to contact lawyers and authorities, saying that this would slow down the process of recovering lost funds.
However, a number of investors were skeptical and turned to the law firm Hanekom Attorneys. It told the agency that they immediately “suspected something was wrong” in the request of the head of Africrypt. According to lawyers, the company’s employees lost access to the software and hardware platform a week before the alleged attack.
Hanekom Attorneys was unable to find out where the brothers are. She found that bitcoins were withdrawn from Africrypt accounts in South Africa and passed through large mining pools, after which it became impossible to trace the cryptocurrency. The case was taken over by an elite South African police unit, which did not answer for the agency’s request. Another company has started to liquidate Africrypt.
Recall, the day before bitcoin rate fell sharply due to Chinawhere four provinces have banned mining.
Previously the first country to recognize bitcoin as a currency… The law obliges all sellers in El Salvador to accept Bitcoin to pay for goods and services, and also allows them to pay taxes with this cryptocurrency.
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