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Mark Karpeles – the former CEO of a now deceased cryptocurrency exchange. Gox – said he was not guilty in the last discussion for his trial, according to Cointelegraph Japan on December 27th.
On Thursday at the court in Tokyo, Karpeles apologized for not being able to prevent his exchange from being violated, but also reaffirmed the idea of being innocent. As reported by the Cointelegraph Japan, in July he declared that he had treated the money stolen "as a loan from the company" and that he would settle later.
Mark Karpeles has been accused of embezzling about 340 million yen (about $ 3 million) from the exchange and manipulation of his data to inflate his cash balance. Karpeles would have transferred 340 million yen belonging to the customers of a mountain. Gox account to your personal account between September and December 2013.
As Cointelegraph recently reported, prosecutors have called for a ten-year prison term for Karpeles, who is currently facing accusations in Japan. During his trial, Karpeles has repeatedly denied having stolen money or manipulated Mt. Gox Registries.
According to today's report, the sentence for the Karpeles trial will be delivered on March 15, 2019.
Nobuaki Kobayashi, the Trustee of Mt.Gox, issued a statement in September stating that he had liquidated almost 26 billion yen (about $ 230 million) in Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) in about four months.
In the document, he informed the public that since the third quarter of 2017 he has sold 24.658 BTC and 25.331 BCH.
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