8.1 C
Amsterdam
28 March 2024
PumpMoonshot
Image default
News

Self-Proclaimed Satoshi Arrested Over Bitcoin Fraud


Jorg Molt, a German entrepreneur who claimed he invented Bitcoin and started “Satoshi School,” has been arrested, Bild reports.

The 48-year old was nabbed by Bavarian police at Frankfurt Airport just minutes before he was set to board a plane to escape to South America.

Following the arrest, Molt’s Karlsruhe apartment was searched and evidence was found.

The police have also launched an investigation into a 54-year-old woman who was his companion.

Molt allegedly defrauded 50 people of 1.8 million euros ($2.14 million) with his “Bitcoin Pension” project.

In a nutshell, the plan was to use 60 percent of all investments to buy Bitcoin mining hardware and generate steady returns with a facility based in Sweden. The remaining 40 percent of the funds was supposed to be kept in a safe account. In a worst-case scenario, Molt claimed that the money could be withdrawn from the account at any time.

“Bitcoin Pension” closed its doors in 2020 after many community members started calling it out for being an alleged scam.

Over the course of the investigation, it transpired that the self-proclaimed Satoshi never intended to invest the Bitcoin he received into mining.

Even if there were no malicious intent on Molt’s parts, his venture clearly lacked a viable business model to deliver on its lofty promises.

Another Faketoshi

As reported by U.Today, Molt got his 15 minutes of fame back in November 2019 after he had an angry confrontation with cryptocurrency commentator Kenneth Bosak at World Crypto Con in Las Vegas.

Multiple prominent crypto personalities took the German DJ to task after he joined the list of self-proclaimed Bitcoin creators.

 

Particularly, famous YouTuber Andreas Antonopoulos denied knowing Molt after the latter started spreading lies about their friendship.

Meanwhile, some dug up a video of Molt’s ex-wife, in which he revealed that the German Faketoshi didn’t even own a computer when Satoshi’s Bitcoin white paper was published.



Related posts

Can Solana (SOL) Price Reach $500 In April As TVL Tops $4 Billion?

PumpMoonshot

FTX will ignite the tokenization of everything

PumpMoonshot

Money Reimagined: Let’s Be Privacy Scolds

PumpMoonshot
Verified by MonsterInsights