Cryptocurrencies

‘Questionable’ Death Prompts Call to Exhume Quadriga CEO’s Body

  • Gerald Cotten died last December while on honeymoon in India
  • Crypto exchange is in the midst of bankruptcy proceedings
Gerald Cotten sits for a photograph at the Quadriga office in Vancouver on Feb. 13, 2014.Photographer: Stephen Hui
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Skepticism around the demise of Canadian cryptocurrency exchange founder Gerald Cotten just won’t go away.

The “questionable circumstances” behind the death of QuadrigaCX’s chief executive last year in India at 30 led lawyers representing customers of the collapsed trading platform to request on Friday that his body be exhumed.