{"id":258670,"date":"2022-08-31T15:35:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T14:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/?p=258670"},"modified":"2022-08-31T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T16:59:18","slug":"thodex-founder-arrested-in-albania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/thodex-founder-arrested-in-albania\/","title":{"rendered":"Thodex founder arrested in Albania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thodex's founder <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/people\/faruk-fatih-ozer\/\">Faruk Fatih \u00d6zer<\/a> was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyet.com.tr\/gundem\/350-milyonluk-tatli-hayat-boyle-bitti-42128832\">arrested<\/a> in Albania's Valora province on Aug. 31 and is expected to be sent back to Turkey for trial after initial questioning.<\/p>\n<p>\u00d6zer is the name behind the significant Thodex rug pull that took place in Turkey in 2021. \u00d6zer stole over $2 million. Interpol has been hunting him for 17 months with a red notice upon Turkey's request.<\/p>\n<h2>The arrest<\/h2>\n<p>A major Turkish news source reported that \u00d6zer provided a fake ID to the Albanian police when they showed up at his door. However, he was immediately taken into custody, and the Albanian forces could identify \u00d6zer through his face ID and fingerprints.<\/p>\n<p>Albania's Minister of Internal Affairs, Bledar \u00c7u\u00e7i, reached out to his Turkish counterpart, S\u00fcleyman Soylu, to notify the country of \u00d6zer's arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The Albanian forces are still holding \u00d6zer at the time of writing. It is reported that Turkish Interpol confirmed that it completed the necessary paperwork for \u00d6zer's return and is on the move to retrieve him.<\/p>\n<p>According to Turkish watchdog MASAK's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hurriyet.com.tr\/gundem\/350-milyonluk-tatli-hayat-boyle-bitti-42128832\">reports<\/a>, \u00d6zer has three accounts holding over $13 million. Most of his funds are held in a wallet belonging to a crypto exchange in Malta. Turkish forces have been looking for 21 other collaborators, and prosecutors are requesting all of them to be sentenced to jail for a total of 40,564 years.<\/p>\n<p>A Turkish lawyer familiar with the Thodex lawsuit commented on the current status of the case and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milliyet.com.tr\/ekonomi\/thodexin-kurucusu-yakalandi-magdurlarin-parayi-alabilmesi-su-kritere-bagli-6816332\">said<\/a>\u00a0users could be compensated if the funds \u00d6zer allegedly holds can be proven to belong to him. Only then can these funds be confiscated by the legal authorities and distributed to users who lost their investments.<\/p>\n<h2>Thodex scam<\/h2>\n<p>Thodex launched as a local exchange in Turkey in 2017 and grew to over 700,000 users by 2021. It became the first Turkish local exchange to expand globally.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, withdrawal transactions were suddenly suspended. Authorities from Thodex calmed their users by saying that the suspension was due to a temporary situation within the company.<\/p>\n<p>They informed the users that Thodex was going through a sales process expected to take five days and that they could continue their transactions after it was over. However, \u00d6zer had fled the country by the third day and took over $2 million worth of crypto with him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_258676\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-258676\" style=\"width: 587px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-258676\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2021-Rug-Pulls.jpeg\" alt=\"2021 Top 15 rug pulls\" width=\"587\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2021-Rug-Pulls.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2021-Rug-Pulls-300x252.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-258676\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2021 Top 15 rug pulls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The chart above is taken from <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/companies\/chainalysis\/\">Chainalysis<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/go.chainalysis.com\/2022-crypto-crime-report-demo.html?aliId=eyJpIjoiR1wvNm95Smg0NXBER1AycDEiLCJ0IjoicGhIQUNZbHB6T3h4UFJYanExaHpNUT09In0%253D\">2022 Crypto Crime Report<\/a>. The $2.6 million stolen was near twice the size of the second-largest rug pull of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The severity of the attack <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/turkey-considers-crypto-regulation-following-the-collapse-of-two-exchanges\/\">motivated<\/a> Turkish regulators to implement comprehensive crypto regulation. The country took the <a href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/crypto-in-turkey-everything-you-need-to-know\/\">first step<\/a> toward creating a full-scale regulatory net in April 2021 and has been working on it since.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thodex&#8217;s founder Faruk Fatih \u00d6zer was arrested in Albania&#8217;s Valora province on Aug. 31 and is expected to be sent back to Turkey for trial after initial questioning. \u00d6zer is the name behind the significant Thodex rug pull that took place in Turkey in 2021. \u00d6zer stole over $2 million. 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