Whitestream: more than 5 000 BTC – Bits Media

Analyst firm Whitestream found, that in the period from August 2020 to February 2021 years from the wallets of the closed Turkish Exchange of Thodex to the addresses of the Kraken Exchange, 5 000 BTC.

At the time of transactions, the total amount of bitcoins was $125 million, and by The current course is more $280 million. Whitestream to the Israeli Ministry of Defense says, that transactions are similar to "output of customer funds". I.e, The leadership of Thodex simply stole client funds.

Recall, what 22 April the work of the Turkish Exchange Thodex was stopped, And funds 391 000 The traders are gone. The founder of the site went on the run. Initially, the Turkish authorities assumed, that the loss of customer customers exceeded $2 billion, However, later the assessment was reduced to $102 million. This is quite close to the approximate assessment of Whitestream.

According to the general director and co -founder of Whitestream, ICIC Levy (Those Levy), from wallets, belonging to Thodex, funds were sent to intermediate addresses, And later the majority of BTC was on the Kraken site. According to analysts, These transactions can have "legitimate", although unlikely justification.

“This could be explained, If all of Thodex spent all operations through the Kraken site. But this is extremely strange ".

Currently, the Turkish police conduct an investigation into the activities of the Thodex exchange and the loss of client funds.