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Faruk Fatih Özer once took a hardware wallet holding $2 billion worth of crypto through airport security while fleeing arrest. This week, he is entering prison to start a 11, 196-year prison sentence . Özer founded Thodex, Turkey’s once-largest crypto exchange, and used it — with help from his family — to steal untold sums from his customers. His brother and sister received the same, 11,196-year sentence. That is, the judge noted, more years than 50 humans could physically serve and the longest sentence ever handed down by a Turkish court. The Founder of the Crypto currency exchange Thodex, Faruk Fatih Ozer, along with his two other siblings, has been sentenced to a total of 11,196 years, 10 months, and 15 days in prison for aggravated fraud and establishing an organized crime group. #SEAToday #SEATodayNews pic.twitter.com/xrlDiOfNeb — SEA Today News (@seatodaynews) September 10, 2023 Read more: Thodex chief denies fraud, says crypto exchange was hacked ...

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried and perpetrator of the 2022 Mango Markets exploit Avraham Eisenberg are once again sharing the same prison . It’s unclear at this stage if the two are ‘bunk buddies.’ Prison records show that Bankman-Fried was returned to the Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn on June 4. He was previously held here before being transferred to the Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City on May 23. He was then moved to a prison in Pennsylvania on his way back to New York.  Meanwhile, Eisenberg was moved to the MDC in November while awaiting trial and so shared the prison for some time with Bankman-Fried. Now, following the former FTX chief’s brief tenure in Oklahoma, the pair are back serving time under the same roof.  Sam Bankman-Fried and the Mango Markets exploiter are bunk buddies at Brooklyn MDC lol pic.twitter.com/flbwWawZSz — okHOTSHOT (@NFTherder) June 5, 2024 Despite NFTherder’s post, it’s unclear i...