Notice of suspicion of handling of stolen funds defrauded from Mintpal Ltd customers by Bitstamp Ltd, Company No. 08157033, 5 New Street Square, London, EC4A 3TW, United KingdomTo the Bitstamp Ltd Directors:
On Oct. 29th, former MooPay Ltd employee Eoghan Hayes
came forward and reported that they are
'attempting to follow the trail of a 3700BTC transaction from MintPal, which is now accused of being lodged into a personal account of Ryan Kennedy', Mintpal Ltd (09009856) being the crypto-exchange that recently had operations taken over by MooPay Ltd (08920347) and with ownership of both companies by Torihiki Ltd (09143500), all 3 companies being registered in the UK.
More background on the incident can be found here:
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/mintpals-3700-stolen-bitcoin-likely-in-hands-of-alleged-scammer-alex-green/ and in the first post of this thread here:
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/moolah-scam-on-mintpal-reporting-missing-coins-824211 and Eoghan Hayes's full account of the incident here:
http://pastebin.com/VYpQ5CWAThe funds in question were lodged to the Bitcoin wallet:
17ztgkcaZbs4VFrAswMQGvnNDEtn47rsmu which according to the MooPay Ltd employees is under the complete control of the CEO, one Alex Green aka Ryan Kennedy, and some of which have been tracked as entering your exchange through the Bitcoin transaction:
9c0824176a642f4e4542cd6438ae689f6d9d843532ee8c3aba3f4d105bcf3b86Consequently I believe that it is likely that you may be dealing in funds stolen from Mintpal customers and you are advised to:
1) Freeze said funds and take account of all activity and transactions occurring with these funds pending potential future investigation by the UK financial authorities and legal action by Mintpal Ltd's customers
2) Identify and record safely any information you have that can be used to identify the Bitstamp user who is depositing the funds in question to your system including and not limited to their email address, login history, client IP addresses, full name, address and bank account details also pending an inquiry by the relevant authorities.
3) Any other actions that are required under English law to help identify and prevent potential financial crimes that may be happening in this case when notified of the potential of such
Please find this as notice of the evidence from people within the company (MooPay Ltd) themselves that these funds may have been stolen and be the property of the company's customers and it is your responsibility to act on this information accordingly to prevent further fraud from occurring (if it is found later that this is the case) and to safeguard the information as to the identity of the user in question and the accounting information as to what happened to these funds pending legal action to reclaim them.
I have also emailed the above for your convenience and provided you with my contact details in addition if you require further information.
Kind Regards
BlockaFett (BitcoinTalk.org User)