Police in Hong Kong and Macao say they arrested four more people linked to the cryptocurrency platform JPEX, which is suspected to have defrauded more than 2,400 people of almost $200 million.
Assistant police commissioner Chung Wing-man said the investigation had reached people who were “relatively close” to the core of JPEX’s operations, but that it is not yet clear if the mastermind is a group of people or an individual.
“This case involves thousands of e-wallets and tens of thousands of transactions. Because of the anonymity of cryptocurrency in the cyber realm, it makes it quite difficult to identify the criminal behind ,” said Cheng Lai-ki, chief superintendent of the police force’s Cyber Security and Technology Crime Bureau.
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