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Founders of South African Crypto Investment Firm Along With $3.6B in Bitcoin Are Missing

by capitalizefinancial
June 24, 2021
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Founders of South African Crypto Investment Firm Along With $3.6B in Bitcoin Are Missing

The founders of South Africa-based crypto investment firm AfriCrypt have disappeared along with 69,000 bitcoins — worth an estimated $3.6 billion — according to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday.

In mid-April, AfriCrypt’s investors were sent an email claiming that the platform was shutting down and freezing all accounts following a hack that compromised client accounts, wallets, and nodes. Investors were reportedly asked not to report the hack to law enforcement, which the founders claimed would slow down the recovery process.

However, shortly after the so-called hack, AfriCrypt’s founders — 20-year-old Ameer Cajee and 17-year-old Raees Cajee — allegedly transferred the pooled investor funds from an account at Johannesburg-based First National Bank (FNB) and disappeared to the UK. Since freezing the accounts, the Cajee brothers have apparently shuttered AfriCrypt’s website and have not returned investors’ calls.

The incident follows closely after the South African Mirror Trading International (MTI) crypto scam, which defrauded investors of over $589 million according to Chainalysis’ 2021 Crypto Crime Report. Crypto scams are nothing new, but AfriCrypt could rank as one of the largest crypto cons in history.

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