Clark and Dawson brought Grant Thornton in to the picture. They could have hired anybody but went for this company and they have taken lots of funds from the company.
The 344 Bitcoin they sold at around $12,700 each to recover their costs brought in around $4.4 million but the Cryptopia
hack was worth around $23-24 million. If the liquidators had the foresight to have kept those funds and sold them later (as in today) they would be worth around $58,000 each therefore 344 Bitcoin would have brought in around $20 million and many investors facing losses would have been able to recoup their funds in fiat at least.
Reading through the article what comes to mind at first is one very important question:
When Intranel staff were told their services were no longer required it made some of the Cryptopia staff upset so was it possible that either one or more Cryptopia staff with or without the collusion of Intranel staff stole the funds and deleted the customer database?It certainly seems plausible because when the company went under it had a staggering 37 employees including many that were friends with their Intranel counterparts so even if there was just one bad apple from a group of 37 then it would have been possible to bring Cryptopia to a disastrous end:
Cryptopia HeistIts quite feasable that thats what could have happened, the disgruntled employees
stole those funds.
So this fraud complaint against GT is likely to rumble on for quite some time and will
no doubt add further delays to accounts and payouts being resolved.
I actually got good news yesterday after a few months of waiting:
....have reviewed your information, and manually approved your Cryptopia account ownership verification on the claims portal.
