22 Nov Mystery of the 30-year-old bitcoin multimillionaire who ‘died on his honeymoon in India’
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A bitcoin multimillionaire was last year reported to have died on his honeymoon in India months before auditors discovered $128million he had stored in digital vaults had vanished.
But a new report asks whether he is secretly living off an embezzled fortune.
Gerald Cotten, 30, was the CEO of QuadricaCX, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Canada which defaulted last year following his death while abroad with his wife Jennifer Robertson.
In the months before Cotten’s death, his company was rapidly unraveling and he had squandered millions on risky bets on new currencies.
Ernst and Young auditors were to discover that the millions which had been stored on external hard-drives, known as cold wallets, had been emptied before he traveled to India.
Cotten’s will was written four days before his death on December 9, 2018. It detailed $9million in real estate, a Lexus, a Cessna plane and his yacht, the Gulliver.
Cotten’s name was also misspelled on his death certificate by…
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