It’s sort of reassuring when one of the Smartest Dudes In The World turns out to be dumb and lucky. Do Kwon, one of the Bitcoin SDITW, was arrested and jailed a year ago. Via Protos, some details about his arrest have popped out now.
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Attempting to leave Podgorica, the capital of Montenegro, on a private jet in March of 2023, Kwon and Chang were stopped at a border crossing when they presented fake Costa Rican passports. The pair were attempting to fly to Dubai, the known home of Changpeng Zhao (colloquially known as CZ), founder and former CEO of Binance.
After having their luggage confiscated and searched, further problematic documents were discovered, including invalidated South Korean and Belgian passports which included totally different personal information for the two. Indeed, according to these passports, Kwon was called ‘Frederic Nguyen’ and Chang was called ‘Thomas Wang.’
As a defense, the duo stated that Montenegrin authorities should immediately get in touch with Costa Rican immigration to prove that their passports were real. However, when the Montenegrin authorities did just that, they were told in no uncertain terms that the passports were forged.
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Dumb and arrogant.
“Just call! Everyone will tell you it’s legit!” In most places this would have worked because the authorities wouldn’t have bothered to call. They would have profusely apologized to Our Rich Friend, Endorsed And Approved By Blackrock.
His big mistake was hiding in the one piece of Yugoslavia that avoided entanglement in the earlier Bush wars and the later Soros wars. Montenegro didn’t give a fuck what Larry Fink wanted.
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