How Thodex Highlight Happened Explained

Going down in history as one of the biggest hits in Turkey’s history thodex A new indictment was filed recently. 21 people, including fugitive CEO Mehmet Fatih Özer, have had more than 12,164 years of experience. Up to 40 thousand 564 years in prison The indictment was accepted today.

In the indictment, which states that 6 people have been arrested within the scope of the investigation so far, it is also stated that a red notice decision has been issued against Özer. Özer’s siblings Güven Özer and Serap Özer are among them. 16 people’s assets were confiscated was also reminded. It has been determined by a court decision that some suspects have accounts on other cryptocurrency exchanges. exchanges also freeze accounts belonging to suspects shared.

How did the highlight come about?

The indictment also described how Thodex carried out the hit. According to the MASAK report included in the indictment, Thodex deceived its customers with fraudulent behavior due to business and transactions. Thodex’s customers‘entities created as records in the system that do not actually exist’ sold highlighted. It has also been added that the platform sets prices based on the supply and demand relationship between customers. MASAK explained the hit as follows:

“There are non-existent assets created by the administrators and trading transactions are made through the software in the system, there are trading transactions made by the platform, and there are not notified to customersIt has been understood that the platform did not notify the customers that the assets belonging to the customers were taken out of the platform.”

As a result of the transfers made by the suspects through the crypto money platform Thodex They bought gold with 22 million 745 thousand liras. and when the money is sent between 27 November 2020 and 23 March 2021, when it is calculated that gram gold is 435 liras. which corresponds to 52 kilograms and 287 grams of gold highlighted.

In the report, which pointed out that the customers were not in a position to know this, the amounts withdrawn in favor of the suspects were also shared:

“The value in TL of the total asset value of 2 thousand 32 customers whose balance information was reached 257 million 862 thousand 432 liras In addition, there are many customers who do not have the title of complainant but have a balance value, 356 million 980 thousand 554 TL of the asset value of 913 million 881 thousand 432 TL created in the system by the suspects was withdrawn, 136 million 719 thousand 289 TL of this withdrawn asset was withdrawn in TL through the banking channel. It has been determined that the remaining 220 million 261 thousand 265 TL crypto asset value has been withdrawn in favor of the suspects as a crypto asset.”

In almost all of the statements taken from the suspects in the report, their actions are fugitive suspects. What they did with the instructions they received from Faruk Fatih Özer expressed. In addition, crypto assets were transferred from 3 accounts under Özer’s control for 253 million 714 thousand 909 TL, and a significant part of these transfers were crypto assets at the Crypto Asset Service Provider of Cem Uzunoğlu, Faruk Fatih Özer and Zuhal Özer’s commercial center in Malta. transferred to asset wallets.

According to the indictment, “establishing and managing an organization with the aim of committing a crime”, “fraud by using information systems as a tool of banks or credit institutions” and “laundering the property values ​​of merchants or company managers and cooperative managers arising from fraud and crime” are about 21 defendants, 6 of whom are imprisoned. of his crimes Imprisonment from 12,164 years to 40,562 years each requested.

For these crimes, the total 356 million TL loss occurred While it was announced, it was decided that 61 suspects were not prosecuted.