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Haru Invest – a South Korean platform that provides various options to invest in cryptocurrencies – will reportedly lay off more than 100 members of its workforce. The layoffs will become official on June 23. The decision comes several days after the company suspended deposits and withdrawals due to an issue with one of its service providers.  According to recent coverage, Haru Invest terminated the contracts of over 100 staff members. They received the news from CEO...

The authorities of Montenegro reportedly consider extending Do Kwon’s custody in the country for another six months before taking an official decision on his possible extradition. The homeland of Terraform Labs’ co-founder – South Korea – and the world’s biggest economy – the United States of America – have both requested his deportation. The Montenegrin police arrested the 31-year-old developer in March this year after he was supposedly on the run for several months,...

Delio, a major South Korean cryptocurrency lending platform, has suspended withdrawals temporarily on its platform, claiming that the measure was taken in connection with another local crypto company, Haru Invest, which recently did the same. The crypto lender stated that the decision to suspend withdrawals was unavoidable. Delio’s Exposure to Haru Invest In a notice to customers, Delio announced that it will temporarily suspend withdrawals starting from June 14. According to...

Dan Sunghan – Director of the Financial Crime Investigation Bureau at the Seoul Southern District Prosecution Service – claimed that the former crypto mogul Do Kwon had moved nearly $30 million in digital currencies to an unknown wallet shortly after his arrest in Montenegro. The 31-year-old South Korean has faced huge criticism and was blamed for having a hand in the massive LUNA/USD collapse last year that triggered multi-billion investor losses. He allegedly spent several...

South Korea’s National Assembly has officially passed a bill into law requiring lawmakers and high-ranking government officials to disclose their crypto asset holdings.  The new law is a response to a recent scandal involving a politician allegedly violating campaign finance laws using cryptocurrency.  The “Kim Nam-guk Prevention Law” According to a report from local news agency News1, the relevant amendments to the National Assembly Act and Public Service Ethics Act passed...

South Korea’s ruling party has called for early enforcement of the law that seeks the country’s lawmakers and high-level government officials to declare their cryptocurrency-related assets. The proposed bill would require local officials and lawmakers to declare all personal crypto holdings over 1 million Korean won (worth around $760). The move was prompted by a major crypto scandal involving a former lawmaker of the opposing party. Calls to Expedite Bill A report by Yonhap...

Earn Your First Bitcoin Sign up and get $12 Bonus Referral bonus up to $3,000 Sign up The recent kidnapping and murder of a woman in Seoul, South Korea (the nation’s capital city) has turned up some new evidence. Police investigating the matter believe the woman may have been involved in various crypto-related disputes, and that her attacker was associated and hired by the opposing party. Why Is...

South Korean prosecutors have reportedly raided the offices of the two leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the country – Upbit and Bithumb – as part of an ongoing investigation against Kim Nam-kuk.  The politician faced public scrutiny after several reports indicated he acquired 800,000 Wemix tokens by bypassing necessary regulations. He transferred the coins from Bithumb to Upbit last year, and the authorities suggested the platforms could have been involved somehow.  The...

Kim Nam-kuk – a South Korean lawyer and politician – will reportedly sell his cryptocurrency holdings amid a conflict of interest that surrounds his stash.  The Democratic party (DP), which he is part of, will also launch an investigation to determine whether he complied with local requirements when acquiring the tokens.  Inspection Could Reach Other Members of the Party According to a local media outlet, the DP urged Nam-kuk to sell his approximately 800,000 Wemix coins...

A South Korean District Court has declared that LUNA, the native token of the Terra ecosystem, is not a security. The court also dismissed prosecutors’ requests to confiscate properties belonging to Singapore-based Terraform Labs co-founder Shin Hyun-Seong, and also arrest him along with other executives of the Singapore-based project. LUNA Is Not a Security Token The Seoul Southern District Court categorically stated that LUNA is not considered a security, according to a...