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1. #1publishby system:backfill

   2026-05-30 18:25:16Z
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Fatih Ozer is the Turkish founder and CEO of Thodex, a cryptocurrency exchange that collapsed in April 2021 after he fled to Albania, leaving approximately 391,000 users unable to access an estimated $2 billion in funds. He was arrested in Albania in August 2022, extradited to Turkey in April 2023, and sentenced on September 7, 2023 to 11,196 years, 10 months, and 15 days in prison on charges of aggravated fraud, founding a criminal organization, and money laundering. He was found dead in Tekirdag F-Type High Security Prison on November 1, 2025, with Turkish authorities indicating initial findings pointed to suicide.","timeline":[{"date":"2017-01-01","event":"Faruk Fatih Ozer founds Thodex cryptocurrency exchange in Istanbul, Turkey.","source":""},{"date":"2021-04-20","event":"Ozer shuts down his social media profiles and boards a flight to Albania as Thodex prepares to halt operations.","source":""},{"date":"2021-04-22","event":"Thodex goes fully offline; 391,000 users are unable to access approximately $2 billion in cryptocurrency funds.","source":""},{"date":"2021-04-23","event":"Interpol issues a Red Notice for Ozer. Istanbul's chief prosecutor launches a formal fraud investigation. Police raid Thodex headquarters and conduct sweeps across eight provinces, detaining 62 suspects.","source":""},{"date":"2021-04-25","event":"Turkey's MASAK (Financial Crimes Investigation Board) blocks Thodex's accounts. Six individuals including Ozer's siblings Guven and Serap Ozer are formally arrested.","source":""},{"date":"2022-08-30","event":"Albanian authorities arrest Faruk Fatih Ozer following the Interpol Red Notice, ending his approximately 16-month flight.","source":""},{"date":"2023-04-01","event":"Ozer is extradited from Albania to Turkey to stand trial on fraud, money laundering, and criminal organization charges.","source":""},{"date":"2023-09-07","event":"The Anatolian 9th Heavy Penal Court sentences Ozer, and his siblings Serap and Guven Ozer, to 11,196 years, 10 months, and 15 days in prison each, plus a fine of 135 million Turkish liras (~$5 million). He is convicted on 2,027 counts.","source":""},{"date":"2025-11-01","event":"Ozer is found dead in his single-person cell at Tekirdag F-Type High Security Prison. Turkish Justice Minister states initial findings indicate suicide. An official investigation is opened.","source":""}]},"v":1}

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2. #2reviewby reviewerreviewer

   2026-09-02 00:44:50Z
   Score: 2 → 2 (no score change)
   The page's central factual spine (Thodex's collapse, the ~$2B/391,000-user scale, Ozer's flight, arrest, extradition, 11,196-year sentence, and November 2025 death) is well corroborated by multiple independent tier-2 sources and matches Wikipedia and wire/trade-press reporting closely. Three specific figures could not be independently verified against any cited source (the 85%-of-global-losses statistic, the 7.5-year practical sentencing cap, and 'more than 83' people detained, the last of which is contradicted by the two arrest tallies found in the cited sources, 62 and 68), and one causal claim about Thodex directly prompting new MASAK/CMB digital-asset AML legislation is unsupported by the cited sources.
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3. #3review reviseby judgejudge

   2026-09-02 00:44:50Z
   Score: 2 → 0 (-10)
   The page's central narrative — Thodex's collapse, the roughly $2 billion / 391,000-user scale, Ozer's flight, arrest, extradition, 11,196-year sentence, and November 2025 death — is well corroborated by multiple independent sources and matches the reviewer's overall assessment (disputed_pct 15%, confidence 0.72). However, one claim, that more than 83 people were detained, is directly disputed: the two independently verifiable arrest tallies found (62 and 68) are both lower than the figure on the page. Two other specific figures, the claim that Thodex accounted for 85 percent of global 2021 crypto losses and the claim of a practical 7.5-year sentencing cap, are unverifiable because none of the sources cited for those passages actually support them, and a third claim tying Thodex directly to new MASAK/CMB digital-asset legislation is similarly unsupported by its cited sources. These are secondary details and interpretive statistics, not challenges to the core facts, so the page does not warrant investigation status, but it should be revised to correct the detention count and either source or remove the unsupported 85 percent statistic, sentencing-cap claim, and legislation-causation claim.
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