The man at the centre of the QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency scandal owned a “large” home in Kelowna, according to his will.
Company CEO Gerald Cotten has become headline news this week and not just in the world of cryptocurrency.
Based in Vancouver, QuadrigaCX was one of Canada’s largest crypto exchanges, but its CEO Cotten died suddenly while traveling India last December.
During the court filing of his will, it became public knowledge that the passwords protecting access to the $190-million in investors Bitcoins likely went to the grave with Cotten.
The situation has led to a flurry of allegations, including death threats towards Cotten’s widow Jennifer Robertson, who has insisted to the court her husband was the only person with access to the digital passwords.
Court proceedings have also outlined the $9.6-million in personal property left behind in Cotten’s will, some of which includes a large home in Kelowna, B.C., a property on Nova Scotia’s western shore, a 2017 Lexus, an airplane and a 50-foot Jeanneau 51 sailboat.
More than a 115,000 Canadians are suspected to have Bitcoin holdings trapped inside QuadrigaCX's cold wallets.
With files from the Canadian Press.
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