Bloomberg confirms criminal past of Bitcoin-exchange QuadrigaCX co-founder

[BitSeven]

It was confirmed that co-founder of Canadian Cryptoexchange QuadrigaCX Michael Patryn had officially changed his name 2 times. In the US, he served time for fraud schemes and stealing, leading to his deportation to Canada.
Thus, Bloomberg publication was able to confirm that Patryn was previously known as Omar Dhanani, meaning he had changed his passport information 2 times: in 2003 and 2008. Government data from Canadian province of British Columbia indicate in March 2003, he changed his name to Omar Patryn, and 5 years later he became Michael Patrin.
In 2005, at the age of 22, he pleaded guilty to a criminal conspiracy to commit fraudulent activities with credit cards through darknet-marketplace shadowcrew.com. 2 years later, he also admitted guilt in separate cases of robbery, embezzlement on a particularly large sums of money and online-fraud.
After that, he was deported to Canada, where he eventually founded QuadrigaCX along with Gerald Cotten. The publication also reports interesting information that last year he hired professional programmers to disable the public access to the data info of his previous indentity.
In the recent interviews for the news of Cotton passing away, he stated leaving QuadrigaCX a long time ago due to disagreements with Cotten and had no longer participated in its operational activity since 2016.
Earlier in the media there was information that Patryn could had opened multi-mill positions on BitMEX BTC Exchange in 2018, which also adds some suspicion for actions of the exchange and casts a negative shadow on it.
Let’s recall, the sudden news of Gerald Cotten passing away in December last year revealed that only he had access for $137 mill cryptocurrency funds of QuadrigaCX users.