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With this much fraud in the founders' background surely the benefit of the doubt about the disappearance of $250M and the founder shifts from "gosh what bad luc
by NelsonMinar 7y ago
With this much fraud in the founders' background surely the benefit of the doubt about the disappearance of $250M and the founder shifts from "gosh what bad luck" to "there's malfeasance involved here".
But the one thing that gives me pause is a Globe & Mail investigative piece confirming Cotten's death. They looked hard, in India, and the story held up. Then again maybe the reporters just got hoodwinked. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-how-did-gerald-cotten-die-a-quadriga-mystery-from-india-to-canada/ https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-how-did-gerald...
- perl4ever 7y agoWell, it's entirely possible that he was going to abscond with the money and he just randomly died. Everybody's got to die at least once.
- Lazare 7y agoWell, yes. The original story ("Cotten was honest, Quadriga was on the up and up, Cotten just randomly died and weirdly was the only one who had access to the funds") has been disproven ten times over. So no, no benefit of the doubt here; obviously there was some sort of scam going on. The question is, what? There's a lot of possibilities! And a lot of them would involve Cotten being really, truly dead, so the Globe and Mail investigation, even if accurate, doesn't narrow things down much.