Over the weekend, Terraform Labs’ CEO and co-founder Do Kwon took to Twitter to say that he was not “on the run” or “something comparable.” He made the assertion after South Korean authorities issued an arrest warrant for him and 5 different folks linked to Terraform Labs for violating the nation’s capital markets legal guidelines final week. However Korean prosecutors aren’t satisfied, particularly since authorities in Singapore, the place Kwon flew to again in April, stated he was not within the nation. Now, the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Workplace is asking the Interpol to position him within the company’s purple discover checklist and to revoke his passport, in keeping with The Monetary Instances. 

In keeping with the Interpol’s web site, a purple discover entails in search of “the situation and arrest of wished individuals wished for prosecution or to serve a sentence” and is usually issued for fugitives. As Yonhap Information notes, Kwon flew to Singapore in late April across the time he dissolved his firm’s workplace in Korea. His members of the family and different key Terraform Labs personnel reportedly adopted him to the city-state in Might. 

The manager and different Terraform Labs’ personnel are underneath investigation for monetary fraud and tax evasion following the collapse of the corporate’s stablecoins, TerraUSD and Luna. $40 billion of investor cash was worn out from the even. And people buyers, who misplaced their life financial savings to the crash, filed complaints that accuse him of working a Ponzi scheme. 

Prosecutors imagine he left Korea to “evade investigation,” seeing as Kwon additionally apparently advised them via his legal professionals that he did not intend to seem earlier than them for questioning. A spokesperson for the Seoul prosecutors’ workplace advised The Instances that they are doing their finest to find and arrest him. “He’s clearly on the run as his firm’s key finance folks additionally left for a similar nation throughout that point,” they added. 

Kwon has but to reply to the prosecutors enlisting the Interpol for assist in discovering him. On Twitter, his location continues to be set to Singapore, and his newest tweets have been nonetheless from the weekend, denying that he was making an attempt to keep away from being captured by legislation enforcement.