Key witness called to testify at Terra parliamentary inquiry is a no-show
The CEO of enterprise capital agency Hashed and early Terra investor Kim Website positioning-joon has cited “excessive stress” following the Terra crash as the rationale for his no-show at South Korea’s Nationwide Meeting’s Political Affairs Committee.
Website positioning-joon was certainly one of six folks chosen to participate within the South Korean parliament’s newest inquiry to higher perceive the occasions that led to the notorious $40 billion wipe out of Terra’s cryptocurrencies, according to an Oct. 24 article from the Korea Financial Every day.
In response to a letter from Website positioning-joon, he suffered extreme psychological hurt from the next the sudden collapse of LUNC and the de-pegging of its related algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD Basic (USTC), writing:
“For the reason that Luna-Terra crash occurred, I’ve been affected by anxiousness dysfunction and panic dysfunction resulting from excessive psychological stress.”
Along with the letter submitted to the Nationwide Meeting, Website positioning-joon connected an knowledgeable opinion and medical certificates which acknowledged that he’d been hospitalized and obtained psychiatrist therapy since Jul. 29.
Medicine and counseling therapy have been additionally stated to have worsened Website positioning-joon’s anxiousness, who’s “in absolute want of emotional stability presently,” in line with the knowledgeable opinion.
A couple of months after the notorious Luna Basic (LUNC) collapse, Website positioning-joon disclosed that Hashed had suffered a $3.6 billion loss from its peak worth in late April, having owned 30 million LUNC tokens, according to an August interview with Bloomberg.
Earlier this month, the chairman of the South Korean alternate Bithumb, Lee Jung-hoon, additionally didn’t attend the parliamentary listening to on Oct. 6, citing a panic dysfunction as the rationale for his no-show.
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Different witnesses referred to as in varied phases of the inquiry embrace Bithumb main shareholder Kang Jong-hyun, CEO of Dunamu which runs South Korea’s largest crypto alternate UpBit Lee Seok-woo, Chai Holdco director Shin Hyun-sung and Terraform Labs co-founder Daniel Shin.
Terra CEO and co-founder Do Kwon was not listed to be inquired by Korea’s Political Affairs Committee — as legislation enforcement models all through the globe proceed to strive monitoring his whereabouts.
