{"id":8792,"date":"2025-12-12T16:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/crypto-king-do-kwon-jailed-for-15-years-over-40bn-stablecoin-fraud\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T16:49:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T16:49:46","slug":"crypto-king-do-kwon-jailed-for-15-years-over-40bn-stablecoin-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/crypto-king-do-kwon-jailed-for-15-years-over-40bn-stablecoin-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto king Do Kwon jailed for 15 years over $40bn stablecoin fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n  By\u00a0<b>Euronews<\/b>\u00a0with\u00a0<b>AP<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            <time datetime=\"2025-12-12 12:33:02 +01:00\">12\/12\/2025 &#8211; 12:33 GMT+1<\/time>\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"--widget_related_list_trans: 'Related';\">\n<p>Disgraced 34-year-old cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison for a fraud that wiped out $40bn (\u20ac34.1bn) in value, devastated charities, and drove some investors to the brink of suicide.<\/p>\n<p>Kwon, a Stanford graduate known by some as \u201cthe cryptocurrency king\u201d, apologised after listening as victims \u2014 one in court and others by telephone \u2014 described the toll his scam had&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/business\/2025\/12\/12\/crypto-king-do-kwon-jailed-for-15-years-over-40bn-stablecoin-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By\u00a0Euronews\u00a0with\u00a0AP Published on 12\/12\/2025 &#8211; 12:33 GMT+1 Disgraced 34-year-old cryptocurrency mogul Do Kwon was sentenced on Thursday to 15 years in prison&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}