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Do Kwon, the wanted South Korean founder of the failed cryptocurrency Terra, denied on Sunday he was on the run after the Singapore police said he was not in the city state as had been believed.
Kwon’s whereabouts have been thrown into question after the Singapore Police Force (SPF) statement late Saturday, and his tweets did not reveal where he was.
The collapse of Terraform Labs earlier this year wiped out about US$40 billion of investors’ money.
A South Korean court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Kwon.
Early Sunday he said on Twitter: “I am ‘not on the run’ or anything similar”, but did not reveal where he was.
“For any agency that has shown interest to communicate, we are in full cooperation and we don’t have anything to hide,” he added.
“We are in the process of defending ourselves in multiple jurisdictions … and look forward to clarifying the truth over the next few months.”

We are in the process of defending ourselves in multiple jurisdictions - we have held ourselves to an extremely high bar of integrity, and look forward to clarifying the truth over the next few months
— Do Kwon 🌕 (@stablekwon) September 17, 2022

The 31-year-old was earlier believed to be in Singapore, where last month he gave his first media interview since the cryptocurrency operator folded in May.
Late Saturday, the SPF said in an email response to an Agence France-Presse query that “Do Kwon is currently not in Singapore”.
“SPF will assist the Korean National Police Agency (KNPA) within the ambit of our domestic legislation and international obligations,” said the brief statement, which gave no further details.
Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper has reported that Kwon’s work permit in the city state was due to expire on December 7, but his application for a renewal could be at risk now.
South Korean prosecutors have also issued arrest warrants for five other people – who were not named – linked to stablecoin TerraUSD and its sister token Luna.
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Kwon’s Terra/Luna system disintegrated in May, with the price of both tokens plummeting to near zero, and the fallout hitting the wider cryptocurrency market. Its collapse sparked more than US$500 billion in losses.
Stablecoins are designed to have a relatively stable price and are usually pegged to a real-world commodity or currency.
TerraUSD, however, was algorithmic – using code to maintain its price at around one US dollar.
Many investors lost their life savings when Luna and Terra entered a death spiral, and South Korean authorities have opened multiple criminal probes into the crash.
Additional reporting by Bloomberg


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Do Kwon, the founder of the collapsed Luna and TerraUSD tokens, said he is not ‘on the run’ after Singapore police stated he was no longer in the country
Do Kwon was at the centre of one of crypto’s biggest blow-ups when TerraUSD (UST) crumbled and brought down the ecosystem he built



Do Kwon, the wanted South Korean founder of the failed cryptocurrency Terra, denied on Sunday he was on the run after the Singapore police said he was not in the city state as had been believed. A South Korean court on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for Kwon.


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