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A Japanese court sentenced the former high-flying creator of the MtGox bitcoin exchange to a suspended jail sentence of two-and-a-half years on Friday after finding him guilty of data manipulation. The Tokyo District Court convicted Mark Karpeles, a 33-year-old computer whizz from France, for tampering with computer data, but acquitted him over charges of embezzling millions from client accounts. The sentence was suspended for four years. In a summary of the ruling, the court said Karpeles had “harmed users’ trust greatly” by manipulating data and “abused his expertise as an IT engineer and his position and authority”.
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