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Caught fleeing to Dubai, the "King of Cryptocurrencies" is sentenced

2023-06-19 16:44:59Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Caught fleeing to Dubai, the "King of Cryptocurrencies" is sentenced
"King of Cryptocurrencies", Hyeong Do Kwon

The so-called "cryptocurrency king", Hyeong Do Kwon, and his business partner, Hon Chang Joon, have each been sentenced by the Basic Court in Podgorica to four months in prison each for forging travel documents.

They will be in custody, as South Korea and the United States are seeking their extradition, due to cryptocurrency scams worth tens of billions of euros.

They were arrested on March 23 at Podgorica airport, from where they tried to take a private plane to Dubai, with illegal passports.

They have been using Costa Rican passports, while during the search, they have also found documents from South Korea and Belgium.

At the hearing, Hyeong Do Kwon and Hon Chang Joon said they applied for Costa Rican passports in Singapore through an agency there, and were then provided with them after the procedure was completed.

They said they were convinced the passports were legal, although they later received a notice from the International Police Agency (INTERPOL) that their travel documents were illegal.

Do Kwon's arrest has received worldwide attention because he is one of the most wanted people in connection with fraud allegedly committed through cryptocurrencies.

His detention in Podgorica has also stirred the political waters, as he sent a letter to the Prime Minister with a technical mandate in Montenegro, Dritan Abazović, in which he said that he knows Millojko Spajić, the leader of the Europe Now Movement.

Spajic is a candidate for the next government mandate in Montenegro.

Everything happened before the parliamentary elections, which were held on June 11 in this country.

Before the election process, Abazović and his party colleagues had doubts that the Spajić Movement may have been illegally financed by the cryptocurrency community.

Then, because of Do Kwon's letter, an extraordinary meeting of the National Security Council was organized.

Spajić rejected Abazović's suspicions and accused him of abusing institutions, as well as declaring that he will not discuss with Abazović's party about the formation of a government coalition.

The Prosecutor's Office then interrogated Do Kwon, about the letter in which Spajic was mentioned, but the South Korean denied having financed any party in Montenegro, including Spajic's./ REL


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