Fugitive Founder of Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex Arrested in Albania

Bitcoin.com | Aug 30, 2022 at 10:30 PM
  • Albanian authorities have detained the founder and chief executive of the Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex.
  • Quoted by the Anadolu Agency and other Turkish media, the Minister of the Interior of Albania Bledar Çuçi informed his counterpart in Ankara, Süleyman Soylu, that Ozer was captured in the city of Vlora.
  • Ozer disappeared in 2021 following the shutdown of his coin trading platform which gained popularity during the crypto boom in Turkey where many were trying to protect their savings from the inflation of the Turkish lira which was rapidly depreciating.