Lawyers request the 30-year-old's body be exhumed to address what they says are questionable circumstances surrounding his death and to confirm he is dead.
Lawyers for customers who lost money investing in an insolvent Canadian cryptocurrency exchange have asked police to exhume the body of its founder.He was the sole holder of a password to over $200 million in cryptocurrency owed to QuadrigaCX's customersGerald Cotten, founder of QuadrigaCX, which at the time Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange, died in December 2018 while on his honeymoon in India from complications related to Crohn's disease.
Law firm Miller Thomsen requested the Royal Canadian Mounted Police exhume the 30-year-old's body to address what it says are"questionable" circumstances surrounding his death and to confirm he is in fact deceased.In January 2019, Mr Cotten's widow Jennifer Robertson, who was not involved in the company while Mr Cotten was alive, announced in a court affidavit she could not access QuadrigaCX's 'cold wallet'.
A 'cold wallet' is a form of offline storage designed as a security precaution to prevent hackers from stealing entire online reserves of cryptocurrency in a security breach. Only the minimum funds needed day-to-day are stored in a 'hot wallet', with the bulk of investment funds held offline in cold storage."The laptop computer from which [Mr Cotten] carried out the companies' business is encrypted and I do not know the password or recovery key.
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