The Japanese media reported that the Japanese police arrested on Saturday, Mark Karpelès French, the CEO of the platform MtGox virtual currency exchanges. Mark Karpeles is believed to have accessed the computer system of the platform and of falsifying data from its accounts, reported Kyodo and NHK public television. MtGox based in Japan had stopped its transactions in February 2014, after suffering a massive computer attack. The platform had filed for bankruptcy shortly after admitting to have lost 850,000 bitcoins worth 48 billion yen (approximately € 355 million at current prices).
Mark Karpeles was later said to have recovered some 200,000 bitcoins in a computer storage place that was not connected to other computers. MtGox, who claimed at the height of its activity the management of 80% of global transactions bitcoin, was one of the “historic” exchange platforms of the money created on a computer in 2009, which had seen its value soar some 100 to debut to over 1000 dollars at the end of 2013.
A system “opaque and volatile”
Investors who had bet on virtual money via bitcoin the MtGox based had expressed their anger by July 2014 at a meeting of creditors of that first went bankrupt Stock Exchange who had gathered at the Tokyo courthouse a hundred investors, mostly foreign expatriates in Japan. “They say that an investigation is ongoing. That’s all, but seem to refuse to make public specific information on MtGox and how bitcoins were stolen, if they were really” had said a French investor.
Mark Karpelès, born in France, had, according to the media, refused to surrender to the United States in 2014 while he remained in Japan to answer questions on the MtGox collapse of the platform he had created. Proponents of this virtual currency see it as an efficient and anonymous way to transfer and store money. Regulators emphasize, they, the dangers of this opaque and volatile system.
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