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The next issue of Corner Kicks with Derek Van Diest will soon be in your inbox. We encountered a problem registering you. Please try again Article Content This has been the case for some crypto entrepreneurs who have met mysterious ends as their ride to riches begins at a brick wall called economic reality.
Here are some of the 2022 Masters of the Universe who died under mysterious circumstances. Quadriga founder Gerald Cotten died in December. 9 in India due to complications of Crohn’s disease.
The death of Canadian Cotten remains so mysterious, so controversial that Netflix gave the docu-treatment to Trust No One. When Cotten “died” while on his honeymoon in India with his wife, Jennifer Robertson, he took with him the keys to hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency.
Some believe he faked his death in December. 9, 2018. Some of his burned investors want his body to be exhumed to find out who the body belonged to. His wife (who inherited millions) insists that he is indeed dead but strangely, no autopsy was performed on Cotten.
TATIANA KULLANDER: And his wife Monica. TATIANA KULLANDER/ FACEBOOK WHO: TIANTIAN KULLANDER WHAT: CRYPTO ENTREPRENEUR 411: Kullander, 30, died mysteriously “in his sleep” on Nov. 23. The founder of Amber Group – a crypto trading platform recently valued at $3 billion – died “unexpectedly”. Until now, there were few details about his whereabouts or cause of death.
The former Goldman Sachs trader was ready to ink a $100 million investment deal. The Hong Kong native was reportedly married with a son and a devoted family man. He was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in 2019.
Mushegian’s body was found floating in the Puerto Rican sea on Oct. 29. He was dressed and carrying his wallet. But in the hours and days before his death, the 29-year-old was talking up a storm that he feared the CIA and Mossad meant to kill him. Police and his family do not believe foul play was involved but his sudden death sparked a flurry of conspiracy theories online. He tweeted hours before his death: “The CIA and Mossad and the pedo elite are running some kind of sex trafficking out of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean islands. They will install a laptop that my ex bought for me [girlfriend] who was a spy. They will torture me until I die.” His family said he had a history of mental health problems.
The husband of Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon, a banking heiress, allegedly suffered a heart attack while being admitted to a drug rehabilitation clinic in Mexico. He was reportedly in possession of more than $200 million worth of XRP coins. Like Cotten, he was the only person who had access to the batter. At its height, Mellon’s initial investment of $2 million was worth $1 billion. But despite his wealth — earned and earned — Mellon was hopelessly addicted to OxyContin and was spending more than $100,000 a month on his 80-pill-a-day problem.
His crypto-currency fortune “disappeared”. Another friend told the Daily Mail: “Something strange has happened to all his crypto money and his family can’t find it.”
