Ο CEO του Mt Gox Mark Karpeles ερευνήθηκε από το αμερικανικό Υπουργείο Εσωτερικής Ασφάλειας (DHS) που είχε την υποψία ότι βρίσκεται πίσω από την online ναρκοαγορά του Silk Road. Η πληροφορία αποκαλύφθηκε κατά τη διάρκεια της δίκης του Ross Ulbricht στη New York.
DHS Special Agent Jared Der Yeghiayan said on Thursday that 2012 had evidence that led him to believe that Karpeles and his partner Ashley Barr were behind Silk Road.
The revelation comes from team of Ulbricht's defense, led by his lawyer Joshua Dratel, who wants to convince jurors that Ulbricht founded the Silk Road, but it was not the Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) the online pseudonym used by the webmaster.
Sarah Jeong of Forbes, who along with other journalists is watching the case from the courtroom, wrote on Thursday that "the DHS agent's theory was that Karpeles was managing Silk Road to raise the price of Bitcoin."
The evidence, however, suggests that the theory of the DHS agent from the beginning to mid-2013 was that the Bitcoin exchange operated alongside Silk Road and that the investigations found that Mutum Sigilum's MT Gox and Karpeles subsidiary had registered under domain silkroadmarket.org.
Recall that the Mt Gox exchange was closed without warning last February, filing for bankruptcy later that month.
At that time, 500.000.000 dollars were lost to Bitcoin. Ross Ulbricht's trial will continue on Tuesday.
