Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles gets suspended jail term for falsifying financial data but is acquitted of bitcoin embezzlement
Japan Times :
Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles gets suspended jail term for falsifying financial data but is acquitted of bitcoin embezzlement
The high-flying creator of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange received a suspended jail sentence of 2½ years after a Japanese court Friday found him guilty on charges of data manipulation.
Japanese prosecutors charge former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles with embezzlement
Kyoko Hasegawa / Agence France-Presse :
Japanese prosecutors charge former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles with embezzlement
Japan charges Bitcoin exchange CEO with embezzlement — Japanese prosecutors said Friday that they have charged the head of collapsed Bitcoin exchange MtGox with embezzlement, amid fraud allegations ...
DHS suspected Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles may have been Silk Road's mastermind, Dread Pirate Roberts
Andy Greenberg / Wired :
Mt. Gox CEO Denies Silk Road Involvement: ‘I Am Not Dread Pirate Roberts’
Mark Karpeles, the CEO of Mt. Gox—which was once the world's most popular Bitcoin exchange—has denied any involvement in Silk Road and has told Motherboard that he's not Dread Pirate Roberts, the man ...
In 2010 a French court convicted Mt. Gox owner Mark Karpeles for fraud in absentia, sentence was a year in jail
Why the head of Mt. Gox Bitcoin exchange should be in jail — While Mt. Gox owner Mark Karpeles was growing what would become the world's largest Bitcoin exchange …
Mt. Gox founder won't appear in U.S. for questions about bankruptcy case
(Reuters) - Mark Karpeles, the founder of Mt. Gox, said he would not come to the United States to answer questions about the Japanese bitcoin exchange's U.S. bankruptcy case, Mt. Gox lawyers told a fe...
Exclusive: Mt. Gox faced questions on handling client cash long before crisis
(Reuters) - Two years before Mt. Gox filed for bankruptcy, a half dozen employees at the Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange challenged CEO Mark Karpeles over whether client money was being used to cover cos...
MtGox code posted by hackers as company files for bankruptcy protection
Cross Office Shibuya Medio, the office building in Tokyo that is home to MtGox and Mark Karpeles' other companies. — Tokyo Apartments — As MtGox CEO Mark Karpeles and his lawyers officially filed ...