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A Crypto fraud arrested.

 Author­it­ies in Montenegro have arres­ted an indi­vidual believed to be South Korean fugit­ive Do Kwon, the crypto entre­pren­eur behind the $40bn implo­sion of the ter­raUSD and luna digital tokens last year.

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In a state­ment on Twit­ter, Montenegro’s interior min­is­ter Filip Adzic said «the former crypto­cur­rency king» was detained by police at Podgor­ica Air­port with fals­i­fied doc­u­ments.

The col­lapse of ter­raUSD coin last year unleashed an unpre­ced­en­ted crash in crypto mar­kets which engulfed many of the industry’s lead­ing com­pan­ies. Kwon, the co-founder of Ter­ra­form Labs, was charged with fraud and breaches of cap­ital mar­kets law in his home coun­try and sparked an inter­na­tional man­hunt.

«We are wait­ing for offi­cial con­firm­a­tion of iden­tity,» Adzic added.

The melt­down of ter­raUSD and luna coins affected hun­dreds of thou­sands of investors, many of whom were drawn in by a scheme in which cli­ents could lend their terra coins for a yield of up to 20 per cent.

Ter­raUSD, a stable­coin, was designed to con­nect tra­di­tional and crypto mar­kets. Traders use them like cash or a store of value between crypto trades.

Most track the value of the dol­lar one­for-one, but terra was sup­posed to be kept in line by algorithmic cod­ing, so it did not need to be backed by hard assets.

The SEC said the alleged fraud occurred between April 2018 and May 2022.

In May last year, ter­raUSD’s peg col­lapsed, spark­ing an unpre­ced­en­ted crisis of con­fid­ence in crypto mar­kets that plunged com­pan­ies such as Celsius and Three Arrows Cap­ital into bank­ruptcy.

The col­lapse of ter­raUSD fuelled con­cerns among inter­na­tional reg­u­lat­ors that the stable­coin industry poses sta­bil­ity risks to estab­lished fin­ance as crypto becomes more integ­rated with con­ven­tional pay­ment sys­tems.

In Septem­ber last year, Inter­pol issued a red notice against Kwon, rep­res­ent­ing a plea to world­wide law enforce­ment to arrest the Ter­ra­form boss.

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