Nearly 25,000 creditors are claiming JPY 2,663,398,225,570 (more than $22 billion USD) from Mt. Gox Co. Ltd., according to bankruptcy trustee attorney Nobuaki Kobayashi. Kobayashi filed a report with the Tokyo District Court, Collegiate Section of the 20th Civil Division. The report summarizes the status of claims against the bankrupt company, along with the status of the investigation into the disappearance of bitcoins from the exchange. The trustee published the report distributed at the fourth credits meeting, according to leaprate.com. Report Lists Assets and Balance Sheet As of Sept. 8, 2015, the bankruptcy trustee has secured JPY 1,242,068,375, i.e., a decrease of approximately JPY 130,000,000 from the time of the third creditors’ meeting. The list of…
Former New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) Regulator Dana Syracuse and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Crypto-Currency Expert Vincent D’Agostino will be joining the regulatory compliance team of K2 Intelligence, a leading compliance and cyber defense company. These two senior executives have served at the forefront of banking law, virtual currency and cybersecurity regulation, and criminal cryptocurrency investigations. Syracuse served as the former Associate General Counsel of NYDFS and was appointed as the Managing Director and a member of K2 Intelligence’s Anti-Money Laundering and Regulatory Compliance practice. D’Agostino was formerly one of the most senior Special Agents within the Cyber Branch of the FBI and will…