Do Kwonは自らの居場所について沈黙を続け、Terra崩壊の被害者に謝罪する

Kwon Do-hyung（Terraform Lab共同創設者）は、Terra崩壊後にUnchained PodcastのLaura Shinとのインタビューで再び姿を現しました。スタンフォード大学出身の起業家は過去5か月間ほとんど公の場に姿を見せず、ソーシャル活動は主に指摘への返答に限られています。Kwonは韓国で指名手配されており、逃走しているという報道を複数回否定しています。

The elusive Terra head is said to have flown from his last known location in Singapore, according to Korean authorities, to an unknown location. In the rigorous interview released this week, he maintained that his limited disclosure on the same doesn’t mean he is hiding away from authorities, rather keeping safe from anonymous investors that have blamed him for their losses in personal threats he has been receiving.

傲慢な人物像とさらにばかげた主張

Kwonは、Terraに対する調査を行う当局、特に自身の関与について協力する意向があると主張しましたが、居住地情報が安全を脅かすことを懸念しています。彼は当局からまだ連絡が来ておらず、メディアが公に報じていることしか知らないと繰り返しました。Forkastは、Terraの不運な崩壊を調査するチーム間で、国際的な犯罪逃亡者がドバイまたは他の第三世界国にいる可能性について議論が行われていると報じています。

“政府関係者が私たちがシンガポールへ逃げたと信じる理由はありません […] 私たちが誤解させようとしたのか単なるミスだったのかは分かりませんが、韓国側から出てくる事実でないことがあまりにも多すぎます,” と、否認、欺瞞、回避に固執しているように見えるTerraの責任者は述べました。

Presently, there is no supporting evidence in the form of records of the controversial developer’s entry into the Gulf country.

資金は凍結されていない

Local outlets reported earlier that Korean authorities asked the exchanges to freeze the Luna Foundation Guard-owned Bitcoin sum, equivalent to $65 million, received from addresses linked to the foundation. Clearing the air around reports of 3,313 BTC being frozen by the OKX and Kucoin exchanges after an alleged suspicious transaction in late September. Kwon retorted that none of the assets he or the LFG holds had been seized by the exchanges.

He disputed the same on Twitter, at the time, as the news spread and in the latest interview, presented that he would have ‘definitely noticed’ such an activity.

“There have been allegations that we moved LFG (Luna Foundation Guard) funds into a Gemini custody wallet and that it’s sitting there or something like that. All we did was to confirm a trade with a market maker and transfer the Bitcoin to an address on the market maker’s instruction,” he controverted.

謝罪的なKwonからのあまり後悔は見られない

The Terra co-founder also said that while the firm’s tone and stance in response to the reaction of the broader crypto community, especially investors who lost large sums, has seemed self-justifying, it is not so. Kwon apologetically noted that he had just as much confidence, as the next bull, in UST’s stability and the project’s overall success before things went south.

He recognized that his belief, well expressed in his frequent arrogantly-phrased remarks on social media, influenced the public, leading some to bet huge on the project.

“It could seem with the way that we’ve been responding to allegations and news reports that we are being defensive but that is absolutely not the case.”

He showed an iota of uncharacteristic humility, owning up to the same and admitting that he was carried away at the height of the project’s boom hence his arrogant persona on Twitter.

“In retrospect, I should have held myself to a more stringent standard,” he conceded but shifted part of the blame to those engaging him.

起訴の可能性

A previous interview published by Coinage received heavy criticism from the Terra community as being a gimmick meant to paint him in a positive light. Regarding the outcome of the investigation, Kwon doesn’t expect to be charged by local authorities with any fraud crime. In his opinion, the charges submitted by Korean prosecutors fall outside the domestic Capital Markets Act, making them invalid.

He argued that the unequivocal position of Korea’s financial markets regulator (FSC) and, by extension, the government on cryptocurrencies is that they are not securities.

“We don’t think any of the charges pertaining to the CMA is applicable because the government stance has been that cryptocurrencies shouldn’t be governed by the CMA, that they are not securities,” he countered on the issue.” Those charges are [not legitimate and] are politically motivated.”

Kwon, who chalks down the May incident to a week protocol design and not ‘rug pull’ speculations, deplored the alleged efforts of regulators to create new regulations during the criminal investigation process. Earlier this month, he was ordered to surrender his passport within a two-week window period, which elapsed yesterday. In addition to potential deportation, Kwon could struggle to get it renewed if it is invalidated.

The Stanford graduate disclosed that a report being prepared by an on-chain analysis firm whose services were acquired to provide clarity on the foundation’s activities is set to be released in the coming weeks. Last week, the LFG communicated an update on its initial plans to compensate users in a tweet, citing litigation matters as the deterrent. The Terra chief-turned-fugitive clarified he had no additional information about the asset redistribution plan.