cointelegraph article says the exchange owes more than $16 million to its customers, according to CBC news. unregistered exchange i guess has to be seized by the government before it will eventually disappear, we've seen it happen over and over about scams. There was an exchange in Canada as well where the news says CEO died, its still going to leave doubts to people that its an exit scam.
Do you mean QuadrigaCX here? Latest news in that mysterious death -
https://www.coindesk.com/quadrigacx-founders-widow-will-cough-up-9-million-to-repay-usersToo bad for the widow if Cotten really was dead.
The truth about Einstein's exchange will somehow be exposed later on.
If in case this is an exit scam, then, they are happy to have that amount of money. Not so greed?