Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ xác nhận bắt giữ sáng lập viên Hex, Richard Heart, và thu giữ 7,15 triệu USD cùng sáu ví lạnh

The Huoxing Finance report states that Turkish Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek confirmed on Saturday that Ethereum ecosystem token Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart were detained in Istanbul. Gürlek posted on X that Heart, whose real name is Richard James Schueler, was detained along with his wife on Wednesday during an operation in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul, after which police detained three additional individuals confirmed to be his bodyguards. The operation was carried out by the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in collaboration with the city’s police intelligence and financial crime unit, with support from Turkey’s intelligence agency MİT. Gürlek said police conducted searches at 15 addresses across the districts of Beşiktaş, Üsküdar, and Sarıyer, seizing $7.15 million in cash, six cold wallets, 160,000 Turkish lira, 28 watches, 97 pieces of jewelry, 300 bags, and 19 graphics cards, along with four long-barreled rifles, three unlicensed handguns, and 1,400 rounds of ammunition. Gürlek added that legal proceedings and the review of seized assets are still ongoing. Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu separately reported that police seized nine vehicles registered in Heart’s wife’s name. According to CoinGecko data, Hex fell approximately 14% over the past 24 hours. Gürlek linked Heart’s Red Notice to $1 billion in cryptocurrency fraud allegations in the United States and Finland. The Red Notice was issued in December 2024 at Finland’s request, as Finnish authorities sought his arrest over suspected serious tax evasion and assault. In the United States, a federal judge dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission’s case against Heart in February 2025 on jurisdictional grounds, and the agency decided in April of that year not to refile the charges.