An interesting new twist has been revealed in the QuadrigaCX scandal. The co-founder of the troubled Canadian crypto exchange, Michael Patryn, is reportedly a convicted criminal who changed his name twice in five years, according to a Tuesday publication by Bloomberg.
Citing official records seen by the media outlet, the report details that Patryn changed his name from Omar Dhanani to Omar Patryn in 2003 and then replacing his first name, Omar, with Michael in 2008.
Under the Omar Dhanani identity, the questionable entrepreneur was charged with identity theft and a bank and credit card scam in 2005. He pleaded guilty to operating shadowcrew.com, a now-defunct website which trafficked over 1.5 million stolen ...