- The whole Twitter neighborhood rejoiced after the arrest of Aleks Mašinskis.
- YouTuber Coffeezilla claims Celsius was a hoax lengthy earlier than Alex Mashinski was arrested.
- Citizen journalist Tiffany Fong reminds followers how Celsius tried to sue her for leaking data.
A number of crypto influencers took to Twitter at present to precise their views on the arrest of Alex Mashinsky, the previous CEO of the bankrupt cryptocurrency lender Celsius. Stephen Findeisen, identified to the crypto neighborhood as Coffeezilla, spoke in regards to the newest information of Alex Mashinski’s arrest.
Findeisen, an American YouTuber and cryptocurrency journalist who exposes fraud and scams, has been a vocal critic of Celsius. Three months earlier than the information about Mašinskis’ arrest, in 2023 On March 6, Coffeezilla posted an in depth YouTube video. Within the video, he uncovered Celsius and referred to as it a billion greenback rip-off and accused Mashinsky of ruining many individuals’s lives.
Tiffany Fong, additionally a well known cryptocurrency influencer, has spoken intimately about Celsius a number of instances. She has a YouTube playlist of each Celsius story that occurred final 12 months.
As quickly as Mashinski was arrested, she tweeted about her pleasure and mentioned“ALEX MASHINSKIS WAS FINALLY ARRESTED” adopted by one other in a tweet“Have enjoyable in jail, Mashinski.”
In her YouTube video, Is Celsius Community Suing Me, Fong mentioned Celsius has spent greater than $70,000 making an attempt to sue her. Fong said that she leaked Celsius’ plan to re-open as Kelvin, their plan to show money owed into IOU tokens, Mashinsky’s transactions and his pockets addresses. Nonetheless, Fong defined that she had by no means labored in Celsius and had not signed any NDAs, so she had not damaged any legal guidelines.
The founding father of Celsius was arrested on Thursday by the US Division of Justice (DOJ) for defrauding prospects. Mashinsky was charged with conspiracy, securities fraud, market manipulation and wire fraud for manipulating the worth of the Celsius token CEL.
In accordance with the DOJ’s indictment, Mashinsky and Roni Cohen-Pavon, Celsius’ former chief income officer, “illegally manipulated the worth of CEL in order that the general public bought CEL at inflated costs, which personally benefited Mashinsky and Cohen-Pavon as a result of they had been undercover. promoting their CELs at costs they knew didn’t mirror the true market worth of the token.
