Japan’s High Court Rejects Former Mt Gox CEO’s Conviction Appeal
Japan’s High Court Rejects Former Mt Gox CEO’s Conviction Appeal
The former CEO of Mt. Gox – the bitcoin exchange at the center of one of the most notorious hacks in crypto – has had his conviction upheld by Japan’s high court.
On Thursday, Tokyo’s the court threw out an appeal from Mark Karpeles, who had been found guiltylast year for manipulating electronic data, upholding the original conviction and sentence of two and a half years in prison, suspended…