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{"actor":"system:backfill","investigation_id":"624c2a95-3b59-498a-bd9a-1209f150b9c0","kind":"publish","page_slug":"andean-medjedovic","published_at":"2026-06-27T12:09:36.154Z","sequence_num":1,"snapshot":{"content_type":"investigation","entity_name":"Andean Medjedovic","sections":[{"content":"Andean Medjedovic, also known as 'Andy' Medjedovic, is a Canadian national of Bosnian origin born in Hamilton, Ontario. He is described by multiple outlets as a mathematical prodigy: he allegedly graduated high school at age 14 and completed a master's degree in pure mathematics at approximately age 18, making him one of the youngest graduates in the field in Canada. His exceptional academic background drew public attention after Indexed Finance identified him as the alleged perpetrator of its October 2021 exploit through a trail of online usernames and forum activity. Medjedovic was approximately 18 years old at the time of the Indexed Finance exploit and 21 at the time of the KyberSwap exploit.","heading":"Background and Identity","severity":"medium","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Who is Andean Medjedovic, the alleged $48M KyberSwap hacker? - CoinTelegraph","type":"news_article","url":"https://cointelegraph.com/news/andean-medjedovic-kyberswap-alleged-hacker"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes - DOJ","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Fake passports, $65M US and an Interpol Red Notice - CBC News","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-alleged-cryptocurrency-hack-9.7066147"}]},{"content":"In October 2021, Medjedovic is alleged to have exploited two Indexed Finance liquidity pools on the Ethereum network, stealing approximately $16.5 million in cryptocurrency. According to the U.S. indictment, he borrowed hundreds of millions of dollars in digital tokens and used them to execute manipulative trades that distorted a process known as 're-indexing,' through which Indexed Finance smart contracts add new tokens to a liquidity pool. By causing the smart contracts to set artificial prices during the reindexing process, Medjedovic allegedly withdrew investor funds at those inflated or deflated prices. Medjedovic has reportedly acknowledged that he carried out the Indexed Finance exploit but publicly maintained the 'code is law' defense — the argument that any trade permitted by the smart contract's code is legally permissible. This defense was not accepted by an Ontario Superior Court, which issued an order freezing associated digital assets and later issued a bench warrant for Medjedovic's arrest following a civil lawsuit brought by Indexed Finance and a Delaware entity called Cicada 137 LLC representing exploit victims. The case drew wide attention in the DeFi legal community as an early test of whether 'code is law' constitutes a valid legal defense to financial crimes.","heading":"Indexed Finance Exploit (October 2021)","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian National Charged With Stealing Approximately $65 Million - DOJ EDNY","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/canadian-national-charged-stealing-approximately-65-million-cryptocurrency-two-defi"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes - DOJ","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Indexed Finance hacker charged in US for alleged $65m theft - DL News","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/indexed-finance-hacker-charged-in-us-over-kyberswap-exploit/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"'Code is law' defence to be tested in case of allegedly stolen crypto - Canadian Lawyer","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/litigation/code-is-law-defence-to-be-tested-in-case-of-allegedly-stolen-crypto/365022"}]},{"content":"On November 23, 2023, KyberSwap's Elastic concentrated liquidity AMM was exploited for approximately $48.4 million across multiple blockchain networks including Arbitrum, Optimism, Ethereum, Polygon, and Base. According to security researchers and the KyberSwap post-mortem, the attack exploited a numerical precision bug in the smart contract's cross-tick liquidity calculation — specifically, a discrepancy between the cross-tick estimation and final price calculation. The attacker used a flash loan of approximately 10,000 wstETH (worth roughly $23 million at the time) and executed a sequence of swaps designed to push pool prices to extreme levels while avoiding triggering the 'updateLiquidityAndCrossTick' function, which normally adjusts liquidity correctly when crossing price boundaries. By manipulating the swap values to narrowly avoid triggering this function on the first pass and then triggering it on the return pass, the attacker caused the contract to double-count liquidity — a mechanism described by analysts as an 'infinite money glitch.' Assets stolen included approximately $20 million in wETH, $7 million in wstETH, and $4 million in ARB, among others. The U.S. Department of Justice indictment attributes this exploit to Medjedovic, alleging he used borrowed cryptocurrency to create artificial prices in the liquidity pools, calculating the precise token amounts required to trigger the vulnerability.","heading":"KyberSwap Elastic Exploit (November 2023)","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Post Mortem: KyberSwap Elastic Exploit November 2023 - KyberSwap Blog","type":"official","url":"https://blog.kyberswap.com/post-mortem-kyberswap-elastic-exploit/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Explained: The KyberSwap Hack (November 2023) - Halborn","type":"research","url":"https://www.halborn.com/blog/post/explained-the-kyberswap-hack-november-2023"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes - DOJ","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Flash Loan Hacks in DeFi: The KyberSwap Exploit - Blockhead","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.blockhead.co/2023/11/24/flash-loan-hacks-in-defi-the-kyberswap-exploit-and-its-implications/"}]},{"content":"Following the November 2023 KyberSwap exploit, Medjedovic allegedly made an extraordinary demand: complete control of the KyberSwap protocol and its decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) in exchange for returning 50 percent of the stolen digital assets. The U.S. indictment characterizes this as a 'sham settlement proposal' constituting attempted extortion under the Hobbs Act. The demand was made on-chain and in public communications and was rejected by KyberSwap. This conduct forms the basis of one of the five criminal counts in the federal indictment.","heading":"Alleged Extortion of KyberSwap","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes - DOJ","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"},{"credibility":2,"name":"U.S. Prosecutors Charge Canadian Man With $65M Hacks - CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/03/u-s-prosecutors-charge-canadian-man-with-usd65m-hacks-of-indexed-finance-kyberswap"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Canadian charged in two crypto platform thefts totaling $65 million - The Record","type":"news_article","url":"https://therecord.media/indictment-canadian-two-cryptocurrency-platform-hacks"}]},{"content":"U.S. prosecutors allege Medjedovic took extensive steps to launder the proceeds from both exploits. Court documents reveal he maintained a file titled 'moneyMovementSystem' containing a step-by-step operating procedure for moving cryptocurrency through a mixer to obscure its origin and destination. He allegedly used swap transactions, bridging protocols, and the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer to launder funds. Notably, more than $6 million in cryptocurrency connected to the alleged exploits was reportedly moved into Tornado Cash while Medjedovic was incarcerated in a Belgrade prison in 2024, suggesting coordination with third parties or pre-arranged automated transactions. The indictment also alleges he used false and borrowed identifying information to open exchange accounts, and internal notes recovered by investigators reportedly included plans to 'make a new bank account under a fake ID' and 'order documents online (Russian + Brazilian + American citizen).'","heading":"Money Laundering and Proceeds Concealment","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Fake passports, $65M US and an Interpol Red Notice - CBC News","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-alleged-cryptocurrency-hack-9.7066147"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes - DOJ","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"},{"credibility":1,"name":"IRS Criminal Investigation J5 Media Release - February 2025","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-ci/j5-media-release-2-10-25.pdf"}]},{"content":"On February 3, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed a five-count federal indictment against Andean Medjedovic filed in the Eastern District of New York. The charges are: (1) wire fraud; (2) unauthorized damage to a protected computer; (3) attempted Hobbs Act extortion; (4) money laundering conspiracy; and (5) money laundering. The maximum statutory penalties if convicted are 10 years in prison on the computer damage count and 20 years on each of the remaining four counts. The investigation was led by IRS Criminal Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations, with assistance from the FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and Dutch authorities. The indictment covers conduct from October 2021 through at least November 2023.","heading":"U.S. Federal Indictment (February 2025)","severity":"critical","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes - DOJ Office of Public Affairs","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian National Charged With Stealing Approximately $65 Million - DOJ EDNY","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/canadian-national-charged-stealing-approximately-65-million-cryptocurrency-two-defi"},{"credibility":2,"name":"U.S. Prosecutors Charge Canadian Man With $65M Hacks - CoinDesk","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/02/03/u-s-prosecutors-charge-canadian-man-with-usd65m-hacks-of-indexed-finance-kyberswap"}]},{"content":"In August 2024, Medjedovic was arrested in Belgrade, Serbia, pursuant to a European arrest warrant issued by Dutch authorities in December 2023 — the Netherlands being where he allegedly executed part of the KyberSwap exploit. He was held in Belgrade District Prison for approximately 105 days. In November 2024, the Higher Court in Belgrade ordered his release, ruling that the evidence presented by Dutch prosecutors did not sufficiently support the charges and that the applicable penalties under Serbian law were insufficient to justify extradition. After his release, Medjedovic did not return to Canada or surrender to U.S. authorities. A January 17, 2025 DOJ filing states the defendant was 'believed to be at large in Bosnia.' Interpol has issued a Red Notice for his arrest. Reporting from Balkan Insight in January 2026 confirmed he had surfaced in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Investigators noted that during his Serbian detention, more than $6 million in cryptocurrency linked to the exploits continued to move into Tornado Cash, suggesting ongoing activity by associates or pre-staged transactions.","heading":"Arrest in Serbia and Subsequent Flight","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Fake passports, $65M US and an Interpol Red Notice: Canadian crypto fugitive vanishes after arrest in Serbia - CBC News","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-alleged-cryptocurrency-hack-9.7066147"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Canadian Crypto Fugitive Slips Dragnet in Serbia, Surfaces in Bosnia - Balkan Insight","type":"news_article","url":"https://balkaninsight.com/2026/01/30/canadian-crypto-fugitive-slips-dragnet-in-serbia-surfaces-in-bosnia/bi/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Andean Medjedovic faces make-or-break manhunt after $65m DeFi hacks - Crypto.news","type":"news_article","url":"https://crypto.news/andean-medjedovic-faces-make-or-break-manhunt-after-65m-defi-hacks/"}]},{"content":"In February 2026, Medjedovic retained Washington D.C. lobbying firm JM Burkman & Associates, reportedly paying a $300,000 retainer, to pursue a presidential pardon from President Donald Trump. Documents filed with the U.S. Department of Justice as required under the Foreign Agents Registration Act disclosed the arrangement. Lobbyist Jacob Wohl, a partner at the firm, characterized Medjedovic as 'a very brilliant young man' and argued that Medjedovic had 'identified an ingenious way to operate within the boundaries set by' the protocols and 'executed standard permissible trades for profit.' The pardon request was reported by CBC News, Balkan Insight, and other outlets in March 2026. As of the date of this investigation, no pardon has been granted.","heading":"Presidential Pardon Lobbying Effort (2026)","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"Fugitive Canadian Hacker, Released by Serbia, Seeks Pardon from Trump - Balkan Insight","type":"news_article","url":"https://balkaninsight.com/2026/03/24/fugitive-canadian-hacker-released-by-serbia-seeks-pardon-from-trump/bi/"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian crypto fugitive is seeking U.S. presidential pardon - CBC News","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/andean-medjedovic-lobbyist-seeking-pardon-9.7130131"}]},{"content":"Multiple sources report that Medjedovic used fraudulent identity documents during his evasion of law enforcement. He allegedly traveled using both a Bosnian passport and a fake Slovak passport, and used the latter when identified in the Netherlands. Internal notes allegedly recovered during the investigation indicate he planned to acquire falsified identity documents, including 'Russian + Brazilian + American citizen' papers, obtained online. He also allegedly used false or borrowed identifying information to open cryptocurrency exchange accounts as part of his laundering scheme. These actions form part of the basis for the money laundering counts in the indictment.","heading":"Use of Fraudulent Identity Documents","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Fake passports, $65M US and an Interpol Red Notice - Radio-Canada / CBC","type":"news_article","url":"https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2224615/fake-passports-65m-us-and-an-interpol-red-notice-canadian-crypto-fugitive-vanishes-after-arrest-in-serbia"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes - DOJ","type":"regulatory","url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"}]},{"content":"Following the Indexed Finance exploit in October 2021, the protocol and Cicada 137 LLC — a Delaware entity formed to represent exploit victims — filed civil lawsuits against Medjedovic in Ontario. An Ontario Superior Court justice issued an asset freeze order covering the stolen tokens. The court subsequently issued a bench warrant for Medjedovic's arrest after he failed to appear. Canadian legal commentary has noted this case as a landmark because the court rejected the 'code is law' defense and demonstrated willingness to apply traditional property law to digital assets. The civil proceedings represent one of the first substantive Canadian judicial rulings on the recoverability of cryptoassets taken through smart contract manipulation.","heading":"Civil Litigation and Ontario Court Orders","severity":"high","sources":[{"credibility":2,"name":"'Code is law' defence to be tested in case of allegedly stolen crypto - Canadian Lawyer","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/litigation/code-is-law-defence-to-be-tested-in-case-of-allegedly-stolen-crypto/365022"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Canadian Medjedovic Indicted for DeFi Fraud - WeirFoulds LLP","type":"research","url":"https://www.weirfoulds.com/canadian-medjedovic-indicted-for-defi-fraud-in-the-eastern-district-of-new-york-rule-of-law-2-code-is-law-0"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Indexed Finance hacker charged in US for alleged $65m theft - DL News","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/indexed-finance-hacker-charged-in-us-over-kyberswap-exploit/"}]}],"sources_used":[{"credibility":1,"name":"Canadian Man Charged in $65M Cryptocurrency Hacking Schemes - 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DL News","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/indexed-finance-hacker-charged-in-us-over-kyberswap-exploit/"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Andean Medjedovic, Canadian math whiz, charged by U.S. authorities - The Globe and Mail","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-us-charge-alleged-hacker-in-us65-million-cryptocurrency-scheme/"},{"credibility":1,"name":"Post Mortem: KyberSwap Elastic Exploit November 2023 - KyberSwap Blog","type":"official","url":"https://blog.kyberswap.com/post-mortem-kyberswap-elastic-exploit/"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Explained: The KyberSwap Hack (November 2023) - Halborn Security","type":"research","url":"https://www.halborn.com/blog/post/explained-the-kyberswap-hack-november-2023"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Canadian charged in two crypto platform thefts totaling $65 million - The Record (Recorded Future)","type":"news_article","url":"https://therecord.media/indictment-canadian-two-cryptocurrency-platform-hacks"},{"credibility":2,"name":"'Code is law' defence to be tested in case of allegedly stolen crypto - Canadian Lawyer Magazine","type":"news_article","url":"https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/litigation/code-is-law-defence-to-be-tested-in-case-of-allegedly-stolen-crypto/365022"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Canadian Medjedovic Indicted for DeFi Fraud - WeirFoulds LLP","type":"research","url":"https://www.weirfoulds.com/canadian-medjedovic-indicted-for-defi-fraud-in-the-eastern-district-of-new-york-rule-of-law-2-code-is-law-0"},{"credibility":2,"name":"Andean Medjedovic faces make-or-break manhunt after $65m DeFi hacks - Crypto.news","type":"news_article","url":"https://crypto.news/andean-medjedovic-faces-make-or-break-manhunt-after-65m-defi-hacks/"}],"summary":"Andean Medjedovic is a Canadian national and mathematics prodigy charged by U.S. federal prosecutors in February 2025 with allegedly stealing approximately $65 million from two decentralized finance protocols — Indexed Finance in October 2021 ($16.5 million) and KyberSwap in November 2023 ($48.4 million). He faces a five-count federal indictment in the Eastern District of New York covering wire fraud, unauthorized computer damage, attempted extortion, money laundering conspiracy, and money laundering. As of mid-2026, Medjedovic remains a fugitive, believed to be in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and has engaged Washington D.C. lobbyists in an attempt to secure a presidential pardon from the Trump administration.","timeline":[{"date":"2021-10-15","event":"Indexed Finance exploited for approximately $16.5 million via a re-indexing price manipulation attack on two Ethereum liquidity pools, later attributed to Medjedovic.","source":"DOJ EDNY Press Release","source_url":"https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/canadian-national-charged-stealing-approximately-65-million-cryptocurrency-two-defi"},{"date":"2021-10-16","event":"Indexed Finance publicly identifies Andean Medjedovic as the alleged attacker through a trail of online usernames and forum activity.","source":"DL News","source_url":"https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/indexed-finance-hacker-charged-in-us-over-kyberswap-exploit/"},{"date":"2021-11-01","event":"Ontario Superior Court issues an asset freeze order covering tokens stolen in the Indexed Finance exploit; Medjedovic fails to appear and a bench warrant is issued.","source":"Canadian Lawyer Magazine","source_url":"https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/practice-areas/litigation/code-is-law-defence-to-be-tested-in-case-of-allegedly-stolen-crypto/365022"},{"date":"2023-11-23","event":"KyberSwap Elastic AMM is exploited for approximately $48.4 million across Arbitrum, Optimism, Ethereum, Polygon, and Base via a tick-precision liquidity double-counting vulnerability.","source":"KyberSwap Post-Mortem Blog","source_url":"https://blog.kyberswap.com/post-mortem-kyberswap-elastic-exploit/"},{"date":"2023-11-25","event":"Alleged attacker demands complete control of the KyberSwap protocol and its DAO in exchange for returning 50% of stolen assets — later charged as attempted Hobbs Act extortion.","source":"DOJ Press Release","source_url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"},{"date":"2023-12-11","event":"Dutch authorities issue a European arrest warrant for Medjedovic in connection with the KyberSwap exploit.","source":"CBC News","source_url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-alleged-cryptocurrency-hack-9.7066147"},{"date":"2024-08-01","event":"Medjedovic is arrested in Belgrade, Serbia, pursuant to the Dutch European arrest warrant.","source":"Balkan Insight","source_url":"https://balkaninsight.com/2026/01/30/canadian-crypto-fugitive-slips-dragnet-in-serbia-surfaces-in-bosnia/bi/"},{"date":"2024-11-14","event":"The Higher Court in Belgrade releases Medjedovic after approximately 105 days of detention, ruling Dutch evidence insufficient and Serbian penalties too low to justify extradition.","source":"CBC News","source_url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/canadian-alleged-cryptocurrency-hack-9.7066147"},{"date":"2025-01-17","event":"U.S. Department of Justice filing states the defendant is 'believed to be at large in Bosnia.'","source":"Balkan Insight","source_url":"https://balkaninsight.com/2026/01/30/canadian-crypto-fugitive-slips-dragnet-in-serbia-surfaces-in-bosnia/bi/"},{"date":"2025-02-03","event":"U.S. DOJ unseals a five-count federal indictment against Medjedovic in the Eastern District of New York covering both the Indexed Finance and KyberSwap exploits, plus attempted extortion and money laundering.","source":"DOJ Office of Public Affairs","source_url":"https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/canadian-man-charged-65m-cryptocurrency-hacking-schemes"},{"date":"2026-01-30","event":"Balkan Insight reports that Medjedovic has surfaced in Bosnia and Herzegovina after evading European law enforcement following his Serbian release.","source":"Balkan Insight","source_url":"https://balkaninsight.com/2026/01/30/canadian-crypto-fugitive-slips-dragnet-in-serbia-surfaces-in-bosnia/bi/"},{"date":"2026-02-01","event":"Medjedovic retains Washington D.C. lobbying firm JM Burkman & Associates, reportedly paying a $300,000 retainer, to seek a presidential pardon from President Trump.","source":"CBC News","source_url":"https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/andean-medjedovic-lobbyist-seeking-pardon-9.7130131"},{"date":"2026-03-24","event":"Balkan Insight publishes investigation confirming Medjedovic's pardon lobbying campaign, with lobbyist Jacob Wohl defending his conduct as 'standard permissible trades for profit.'","source":"Balkan Insight","source_url":"https://balkaninsight.com/2026/03/24/fugitive-canadian-hacker-released-by-serbia-seeks-pardon-from-trump/bi/"}]},"v":1}