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The founder of the Turkish crypto exchange Thodex Lake was found dead in a prison cell
The founder of the bankrupt Turkish crypto exchange Thodex, Faruk Fatih Ozer, was found dead in his prison cell in the city of Tekirdag in western Turkey.Komsomolskaya Pravda
It is specified that Farook was serving his sentence in a high-security solitary confinement cell and was found hanged from a sheet tied to the bathroom door.Komsomolskaya Pravda
The prosecutor's office is currently investigating the incident.RT in Russian
In 2023, a Turkish court sentenced Ozer to 11196 years in prison for fraud and a number of other crimes.RT in Russian


Fatih Ozer, the founder of the Turkish Thodex crypto exchange, who was sentenced to more than 11,000 years, was found dead in a prison in the city of Tekirdag, presumably he committed suicide, Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on Saturday.

Ozer was extradited to Turkey from Albania and sentenced in September 2023 to more than 11,000 years in prison on charges of fraud and forming a criminal group. In January 2025, the Court of Appeal overturned the verdict, but kept Ozera under arrest on fraud charges.

Faruk Fatih Ozer led Thodex from its founding in 2017 until its collapse in 2021. After the exchange closed, he left Turkey and fled to Albania, where he was detained in 2022. In early 2023, Ozera was extradited back to Turkey.

In September 2023, a Turkish court sentenced him to 11,196 years in prison. The court found him guilty of fraud, creation and leadership of a criminal organization, as well as money laundering.

Earlier Life.ru I reported that Alexey Beshchekov, the former administrator of the Russian crypto exchange Garantex, died in India on August 31. He was under arrest and awaiting a court decision on extradition to the United States.
Euroclear began to unfreeze the assets of Russians without a license from OFAC USA
The Belgian depository Euroclear has begun unblocking the assets of Russian investors without an American license from OFAC.RBC
Gleb Boyko, a lawyer at the NSP Law Office, noted that three successful cases of asset unblocking from various brokers have already been recorded.Tsargrad
Delcredere's lawyers also announced in their telegram channel that they had received a letter from Euroclear stating a new procedure for unblocking.
Now, if no American individuals or financial institutions are involved in the transaction, the depository does not require OFAC approval even for assets with the US nexus — that is, related to American securities.360° TV Channel