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Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested in China, Withdrawals Suspended: Details

Sat, 12/05/2020 - 12:51
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Yuri Molchan
Chinese crypto journalist Colin Wu has reported that founder of another crypto exchange has been detained by the police in China and withdrawals have been suspended
Crypto Exchange Founder Arrested in China, Withdrawals Suspended: Details
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Chinese-based journalist Colin Wu, who often covers hot topics about crypto exchanges in China, has tweeted that the work of another Chinese exchange has been suspended.

The founder of the CEO Global exchange, located in Hong Kong, has been arrested by the police for two weeks while the investigation against him lasts.

CEO Global exchange founder arrested

Colin Wu tweeted that this small Chinese exchange, CEO Global, is expected to be closed in China. The reason for that is that its founder has been detained by the police in the course of the operation of bank card suspension conducted by the authorities.

According to the tweet, the founder of the exchange has received a great amount of “black money” on his bank card and was taken away by the police.

The investigation is expected to last fifteen days.

Wu
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Withdrawals suspended, users suspect an exit scam

In the second tweet in the thread, Wu said that crypto withdrawals from the exchange have been suspended. The reason is that the founder of the exchange was the main holder of the private keys to the cold wallets.

This has made the team shut down withdrawals from the hot wallets as well.

Curiously, though, Wu writes that some of the users believe that the exchange is using this incident with the authorities to steal their money.

The OKEx founder recently got into the similar situation when he was taken away by the police and was absent for two weeks. The exchange was able to resume withdrawals only at the end of November.

Bank card suspension in China

This year, the Chinese Central Bank (PBOC) began taking steps against money laundering.

However, it delegated specific operations to smaller banks and financial institutions. Banks started freezing cards of OTC traders and other crypto users with China Merchants Bank among them in particular.

These measures hit not only crypto users – accounts of other suspects have been blacklisted to prevent them from using bank cards.

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Yuri is a crypto journalist interested in technology and technical innovations. He has been in crypto since 2017. Believes that blockchain and cryptocurrencies have a potential to transform the world in the future in many of its aspects. ‘Hodls’ major cryptocurrencies and has written for multiple crypto media outlets. 

His articles have been quoted by such crypto influencers as Tyler Winklevoss, John McAfee, CZ Binance, Max Keiser, etc.

Currently Yuri is a news writer at U.Today and can be contacted at yuri.molchan@u.today.