South Korean authorities have reportedly seized over $100 million from Shin Hyun-seong, the co-founder of collapsed stablecoin issuer Terra (LUNA).
Based on a brand new report by YTN Korea, a court docket has frozen the funds of Hyun-seong on the request of prosecutors.
Hyung-seong is accused of promoting pre-issued LUNA tokens to unaware prospects earlier than the agency’s collapse and instantly realizing the income. Hyun-seong can also be the final supervisor of funds platform and fintech agency Chai Company.
Based on the report, Hyun-seong just isn’t solely suspected to have earned illicit income from promoting LUNA, however he’s additionally accused of leaking Chai buyer info to Terra.
Terra initially collapsed in Could after UST, its algorithmic stablecoin, misplaced its peg to the US greenback, wiping out billions of {dollars}. Since then, co-founder and former CEO Do Kwon has confronted quite a few investigations from authorities.
In September, Interpol issued a pink discover for Kwon, calling upon legislation enforcement to arrest him if noticed, a transfer Kwon mentioned was extremely political in nature.
Although Kwon has not turned himself in, he has taken accountability for the downfall of Terra and UST, saying in an interview final month that it was his fault and his fault alone.
“No matter points existed in Terra’s design, its weak spot [in responding] to the cruelty of the markets, it’s my accountability and my accountability alone.
So for the group that engaged within the Terra ecosystem, used its apps, despatched tokens and cash into many protocols, the downfall of the businesses that selected to construct on Terra, for the a whole lot of 1000’s if not thousands and thousands that used Terra forex [and] the Terra ecosystem which was all constructed on the steadiness of [TerraUSD], I come clean with that accountability absolutely and it’s not simple.”
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