Karpeles back to living large in one of the most expensive apartments in Tokyo

[MightySpoon]

So it's a known fact that until trouble began at Mt. Gox in February, CEO Mark Karpeles was residing in a swanky Tokyo apartment building called "La Tour Aobadai". It was listed as his public home address, and he posted some photos from his apartment on Twitter, e.g.

https://i.imgur.com/seujhuo.jpg

(There was actually another nighttime photo of the same view along which he tweeted "View from my new apt~" sometime in 2012, but it seems to have been deleted (even though it was still there literally yesterday!))

I went and recreated the view in Google Maps. Image for the lazy below.

https://i.imgur.com/iUaZ88K.jpg

The edge of the building you can see in the lower-left corner is the roof of "La Tour Aobadai". Pretty convincing, no?

Karpeles moved out of the apartment shortly before trouble began at Mt. Gox, as evidenced by the protesters who went to pay him a visit during this time (only to find he'd already hightailed his ass out of there).

So then there was the infamous "Tokyo sunset" tweet from a few days ago:

https://i.imgur.com/lctA4Z5.png

Now, turn the Google Maps recreation above 180 degrees...:

https://i.imgur.com/PfBbKII.jpg

Aaaand he's back to living in the same apartment building, except this time he's on the north-west side rather than the south-east side.

Judging from the angle and altitude of the photo, it is almost certain that it was taken from a corner apartment on one of the higher floors, which are also the most expensive. Here's a vacancy for a similar apartment, on the same corner Karpeles is living. In fact, he may have just taken the photo straight from the shitter, as if symbolically emptying his bowels all over the Mt. Gox creditors

https://i.imgur.com/9Li2rHD.jpg

The scenery behind the toilet is identical to the one in his photo. You may also notice that the rent for this place is 1.6 million yen. That's around $16,000 per MONTH.

Now how the fuck is this possible?

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[ARGpentem]

maybe because he stole all the bitcoins?

[S4VV4S]

Maybe he likes to take a crap whit the entire Tokyo looking at him?

[ArticMine]

One or more of the creditors need to "pierce the corporate veil" and go after the assets of Tibanne and Karpeles' personal assets in the MTGox bankruptcy.

Edit: Then he will not even be able to afford a capsule here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower

[Justin00]

What ever happened here ?
I know the story of how they went bankrupt or whatever.... "lost" bitcoins, but I mean is their pending lawsuits ? criminal action ?
or is the ol' classic bitcoin 'nothing ever happens' going to prevail again. Really hope not. Just gives the next guy that much more incentive to pull the same shit. Or the same guy, either or

[williamj2543]

He is taking the money from Mt. Gox. Does anyone know all the BTC addresses? Check if there is any new deposits/withdrawals.

[jonald_fyookball]

maybe because he stole all the bitcoins?

YA THINK?

[ljudotina]

I'm pretty much sure, he has enough of "private" BTC that wa snever in those large BTC adresses. If you'r wondering who is selling 1-2k BTc when those drops happe, now you know who  

[CEG5952]

Have Willy drive up the bubble, then slowly sell thousands and thousands of bitcoins.... live large. Sounds like a pretty good plan to me. Hats off, Mr. Karpeles.

[jonald_fyookball]

One or more of the creditors need to "pierce the corporate veil" and go after the assets of Tibanne and Karpeles' personal assets in the MTGox bankruptcy.

Edit: Then he will not even be able to afford a capsule here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakagin_Capsule_Tower

good thought but might not help that much if he has tons of coins

[nwfella]

Pretty swanky looking place there.  Although I think he's going to need to get a much larger toilet!  Pretty disgusted by the behavior of this guy.  The tweets are bad enough.  My hats off to Andreas for speaking his piece in that CoinDesk article.

[bryant.coleman]

This Japanese justice system works very well against the violent crimes. But at the same time, it is having almost no effect on the white-collar criminals. Japan is turning to be a perfect refuge to all those financial crooks.

[lynn_402]

This Japanese justice system works very well against the violent crimes. But at the same time, it is having almost no effect on the white-collar criminals. Japan is turning to be a perfect refuge to all those financial crooks.

Not to mention drug crimes. It's one of the country where drugs are the most expensive, because of how severe and efficient they are against them.

I find their sense of priorities truly disturbing.

[devphp]

This Japanese justice system works very well against the violent crimes. But at the same time, it is having almost no effect on the white-collar criminals. Japan is turning to be a perfect refuge to all those financial crooks.

To paraphrase, if an exchange operates from Japan, don't trade on it. Which other countries are the same?

[Meuh6879]

why, this guy, is not in jail ?
i don't understand the justice ... 

[HeliKopterBen]

Shouldn't he be rotting in jail right now.

[ljudotina]

Shouldn't he be rotting in jail right now.

Why? He just stole some virtal money or something like that? Honest fella...

[devphp]

why, this guy, is not in jail ?
i don't understand the justice ... 

But he apologized, didn't he?

[illyiller]

Shouldn't he be rotting in jail right now.

It's only magic internet money. He said he was sorry and bowed.

[freedombit]

Pretty swanky looking place there.  Although I think he's going to need to get a much larger toilet!  Pretty disgusted by the behavior of this guy.  The tweets are bad enough.  My hats off to Andreas for speaking his piece in that CoinDesk article.

Will you please provide a link?