Gerry Cotten, founder of the cryptocurrency exchange company QuadrigaCX, died suddenly without telling anyone the password to his encrypted computer that kept his digital wallet password. Creditors are now requesting his exhumation to make sure he is dead.
In late January, the wife of the founder of QuadrigaCX, a cryptocurrency exchange company, testified that her husband died suddenly in India of Crohn's disease and inadvertently took at least $ 137 million from his clients' assets to his grave.
The reason? He died without giving anyone the password to his encrypted laptop. Now, outraged investors want the heap to be exhumed to make sure it's really dead.
This strange story first reported in February , when the wife of Gerry Cotten, founder of QuadrigaCX, submitted a statement stating that her husband died suddenly while she was in India, at the age of 30. The cause: complications of Crohn's disease, an intestinal condition that is rarely fatal. At the time, QuadrigaCX lost control of at least $ 137 million in customer assets because the password was stored on a laptop that - according to the widow's affidavit - only Cotten knew the password to.
The widow Jennifer Robertson testified that he hired experts to try to decrypt the laptop, but they too were unsuccessful.
On Tuesday, the New York Times ανέφεραν ότι τα χρήματα των πελατών της εταιρείας QuadrigaCX που δεν ανακτήθηκαν υπολογίζονται πλέον στα 250 εκατομμύρια δολάρια. Εν τω μεταξύ, οι αστυνομία του Καναδά – όπου βρίσκεται η QuadrigaCX – και των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών, διερευνούν ενδεχόμενες ατασθαλίες και οι επενδυτές ζητούν την απόδειξη ότι ο Cotten είναι στην πραγματικότητα νεκρός.
According to NYT, lawyers representing the exchange's clients from Canadian police to exhume the body of him and to conduct an autopsy "to confirm both his identity and the cause of death." The letter cited "controversial circumstances surrounding Mr. Cotten's death as well as significant financial losses" and called for the exhumation and autopsy to be completed no later than "spring 2020, due to decay concerns."
The manner in which the exhumation and autopsy would lead to recovery of the digital wallet or computer code is not clear.
