携价值20亿美元加密货币潜逃一年多，28岁虚拟货币交易平台Thodex创始人落网

记者 | 冯赛琪

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近日，年仅28岁的土耳其加密货币交易平台Thodex的创始人泽尔（Faruk Fatih Ozer）在阿尔巴尼亚被捕，国际刑警组织持续了一年的追捕行动至此告一段落。

In recent days, the founder of the Turkish encrypted currency exchange platform Thodex, 28 years old, was arrested in Albania by Faruk Fatih Ozer, and a year-long pursuit by Interpol ended.

阿尔巴尼亚政府部门官网发表声明称，泽尔已在该国的西南部海滨城市发罗拉被捕，他的身份已通过生物识别技术确认。据悉，泽尔被引渡回土耳其的程序，是由国际刑警组织首席法官牵头发布的。

The Albanian Network of Government Officials issued a statement stating that Zel had been arrested in Vlora, the south-western coastal city of the country, and that his identity had been confirmed by biometric techniques.

2021年4月，泽尔创办的Thodex交易所破产。据土耳其当地媒体报道，他带着价值20亿美元（约138亿元人民币）的加密货币逃离，最后一次露面是在土耳其的伊斯坦布尔机场。

2021 4 month, Zeir founded the Thodex exchange 20 billion dollars (approximately 138/span> yuan), last seen at Istanbul airport in Turkey.

随后，Thodex团队被土耳其警方搜查逮捕，警方对该平台的78名工作人员发出了逮捕令，最终有62人被拘留。而泽尔在被逮捕之前，登上了国际刑警组织的红色通缉令名单。

Subsequently, the Thodex team was searched and arrested by the Turkish police, who issued an arrest warrant against the platform's staff member 78, which resulted in the detention of 62.

国际刑警组织官网目前仍保留着泽尔的红色通缉令。官网信息显示，泽尔于1994年出生于土耳其的港口城市盖布泽，国际刑警组织称泽尔涉嫌建立犯罪组织和严重欺诈罪。

The Interpol network still maintains a red wanted notice for Zel. According to the official network, Zere was born in Turkey in 1994 in the port city of Gebze in , where Interpol claims that Zel is suspected of establishing a criminal organization and serious fraud.

当时土耳其当地媒体报道，泽尔和他的同谋从至少40万投资者处非法获得了20亿美元。而加密币数据公司Chainalysis的一份报告估计，该交易所给投资者造成的损失约为25.2亿美元，占2021年全球加密货币交易所暴雷跑路所产生总损失的90%。

At that time, local Turkish media reported that Zel and his accomplices had illegally obtained 20 billions of dollars from at least 40/span> investors. A report by cryptographic currency data company Chainalysis estimated the losses to investors from the exchange at about 25.2/span>, accounting for 90% of the total losses from the global encrypted currency exchange >span >2021.

该案件目前已经正式进入司法程序。

The case has now been formally brought to justice.

不过从官方发布的起诉书看，检察官认定泽尔团队涉及的损失金额并没有那么多。今年4月，土耳其检察官公布了对泽尔团队的起诉书，称Thodex交易所给投资者造成的损失约为2400万美元。

According to the official indictment, however, the prosecutor did not find that the damages involved by the Zeil team were that much. This year, 4, the Turkish prosecutor issued an indictment against the Zeher team, stating that the losses to investors on the Thodex exchange were approximately 2400.

起诉书称，检察官指控泽尔成立犯罪组织、通过信息学系统进行欺诈以及清洗犯罪活动所得，因此诉请法院判处其4.06万年的监禁，并诉请对2021年因该案被捕的21人判处类似刑罚。

The indictment states that the Prosecutor charged Zeher with the establishment of a criminal organization, fraud through an informatics system and the laundering of the proceeds of criminal activities, and requested the Court to sentence him 4.06 to imprisonment for thousands of years and a similar sentence to be imposed on 21 /span > persons arrested in the case in the year of 2021 /span >.

公开信息显示，Thodex于2017年成立，是土耳其第一家获得美国FinCen MSB许可的加密货币交易所，在土耳其拥有约70万名客户。

Public information indicates that Thodex was founded in 2017, the first Turkish encrypted currency exchange licensed by , FinCen MSB, with approximately 70

2021年4月，Thodex突然停止所有交易服务，针对平台卷钱跑路的传闻，Thodex先后发布了两次公告。

During the month of 2021 4, Thodex suddenly stopped all trading services and Thodex issued two separate announcements in response to rumours that the platform was rolling money.

Thodex第一次发布公告称，服务仅暂停4-5天，以评估与“世界知名银行和融资公司”的合作协议。

Thodex first issued an announcement stating that services were suspended for 4-5 days to assess cooperation agreements with “ world-renowned banks and finance companies >/span >.

一天后，泽尔作为公司创始人，在平台官方社交媒体上再次发布声明，称公司电路遇到技术问题，公司网络安全存在隐患，需要时间修复。并表示自己绝对不会伤害自己的国家和民族。

One day later, Zell, as the founder of the company, issued another statement on the platform’s official social media, claiming that the company’s circuits were facing technical problems, that the company’s network security was compromised, and that it needed time to repair it. He said he would never harm his own country or nation.

泽尔表示自己曾考虑过自杀，但又表示“我决定活着、战斗、工作，还清我对你们的债务。当我偿还所有债务的那天，我会回到我的国家，伸张正义。”

Zel said that he had thought about suicide, but said > > I decided to live, fight, work, pay my debts to you. The day I pay all my debts, I will return to my country to do justice.

在逃往阿尔巴尼亚之前，泽尔被发现将价值1.25亿美元的比特币转移到了另一全球知名交易所Kraken。

Before fleeing to Albania, Zel was found to have transferred the dollar bitcoin, worth 125 , to another globally renowned exchange, Kraken .

今年币圈震动引发了大大小小的交易所关停、跑路，虚拟货币业务存在的高风险在这次熊市中表露无遗。

This year's currency concussion triggered large and small exchange closures and run-offs, and the high risk of virtual currency operations became apparent in this bear market.

我国严令禁止虚拟货币业务的运营，监管部门曾多次声明，提醒虚拟货币交易存在的高风险。

The operation of virtual currency operations is strictly prohibited in our country, and the regulatory authorities have repeatedly stated that they are a reminder of the high risk of virtual currency transactions.

今年8月，网信办发布消息称，按照《关于进一步防范和处置虚拟货币交易炒作风险的通知》精神，国家网信办督促指导主要网站平台切实落实主体责任，持续保持对虚拟货币交易炒作高压打击的态势，加大对诱导虚拟货币投资等信息内容和账号自查自纠力度。

In 8 this year, the Office released information that, in the spirit of the Circular on the Further Prevention and Management of the Risks of Virtual Currency Transactions, the National Networking Office has urged the main web platform to guide the effective implementation of corporate responsibility, maintain a high-pressure campaign against virtual currency transactions, and increase self-censorship of information content and accounts such as the inducement of virtual currency investments.

2021年9月，央行、最高法院等多部门联合发布《关于进一步防范和处置虚拟货币交易炒作风险的通知》，明确表示虚拟货币不具有与法定货币等同的法律地位；虚拟货币相关业务活动属于非法金融活动；境外虚拟货币交易所通过互联网向我国境内居民提供服务同样属于非法金融活动。

In the month of 2021 9, the Central Bank and the Supreme Court, among others, jointly issued a Circular on Further Prevention and Handling of the Risks of Virtual Currency Transactions, which clearly states that Virtual Currency does not have legal status equivalent to that of legal tender; Virtual Currency-related operations are illegal financial activities; and Foreign Virtual Currency Exchanges provide services to residents in the country via the Internet are also illegal financial activities.

参与虚拟货币投资交易活动存在法律风险，任何法人、非法人组织和自然人投资虚拟货币及相关衍生品，违背公序良俗的，相关民事法律行为无效，由此引发的损失由其自行承担，涉嫌破坏金融秩序、危害金融安全的，由相关部门依法查处。

There is a legal risk of participating in virtual money investment transactions, and any legal person, illegal organization or natural person who invests in virtual money and related derivatives contrary to public order, and the relevant civil law acts are null and void, and the resulting damage is borne by him or her, suspected of undermining the financial order and endangering financial security, and is subject to investigation by the relevant authorities in accordance with the law.