BREAKING: Hundreds of Millions of Dollars Allegedly Stolen from Major Turkish Crypto Exchange
Thodex users allege that their money has been stolen after the exchange mysteriously went offline yesterday
After halting trading on Wednesday, Turkish digital asset exchange Thodex is now facing a criminal complaint from its disgruntled users who allege that hundreds of millions of dollars could have been stolen from the trading platform.
The class-action suit was filed on the same day the exchange locked users out of their holdings, lead plaintiff Oguz Evren Kilic told Bloomberg in an interview. Kilic claims that the exchange’s founder and CEO, Faruk Fatih Ozer, left Turkey one day before the exchange went silent.
State-run news agency Anadolu Agency has just reported that Istanbul’s Public Prosecutor’s Office had already launched an investigation into the embattled exchange.
Thodex is one of the largest Turkish exchanges with 400,000 members and over $1.2 billion in daily trading volume.
On Apr. 22, it sparked outrage by announcing by abruptly shutting down its services for a five-day maintenance period to allegedly receive outside investment.
