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Published in TZ Latest News 15 January, 2015 by The TZ Newswire Staff

U.S. probed Mt. Gox CEO as possible Silk Road mastermind: agent

A U.S. agent investigating Silk Road told jurors at a trial of accused operator Ross Ulbricht that he believed in 2013 that the former chief of the Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange, Mark Karpeles, may have been the mastermind behind the black market website. Ulbricht’s lawyer Joshua Dratel pointed to Karpeles, who was CEO of Mt. Gox.