A day after a Tokyo court upheld charges against him, Mark Karpeles, the former owner and CEO of the now-defunct exchange Mt. Gox, spoke to Cointelegraph regarding the verdict.
On June 11, Tokyo District Court Judge Mariko Goto struck down Karpeles' appeal to a previous charge of tampering with financial data. Karpeles was first convicted in March 2019 and received a two-and-a-half year jail sentence. He began the appeals process that same month. The former CEO will have to serve time should he commit another offense within four years.