Bitcoin.com CEO and Bitcoin Cash advocate Roger Wer shared his opinion on the verdict to Mark Carpeles. Former CEO of Mt. Gox Carpeles received a suspended sentence. The Tokyo District Judge spent 2.5 years on probation with a probation period of 4 years. Apparently, Vera does not like this outcome.
If the charges of theft of client funds were confirmed, Karpeles would have received a term of 10 years in prison. As it turned out, he was involved in falsifying financial statements, but he did not steal money, so the judge significantly reduced the sentence.
In an interview with Decrypt, Roger Vere stated that Karpeles “must answer for his inability to protect investors' funds from hackers” Nevertheless, the responsibility for the fact of theft, he still imposes on hackers. Roger Ver is one of the contributors to Mt. Gox. As he said in an interview, the lost amount of BTC turned his life upside down.
Recall at a certain point Mt. Gox was considered the largest crypto-stock market in the world, which accounted for up to 70 percent of transactions with BTC. However, the exchange was hacked and 850 thousand coins were stolen. This forced the site to suspend trading and become bankrupt.
In the course of the investigation, Karpeles himself admitted that there were many bugs and errors in the code of the exchange after its redemption from Jed McCaleb. However, he did not dare to suspend work for a quality upgrade and cost him a few patches in the code. Perhaps it was this moment that led to such a sad result.
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