Sylwester Suszek is missing. The head of Zondacrypto appeals to the “king of cryptocurrencies”
“I decided to make public the address of the wallet containing 4.5 thousand bitcoins worth $330 million to put an end to unfounded accusations of alleged misappropriation of funds,” Przemysław Kral wrote on Thursday on the X platform.
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Przemysław Kral emphasized that he really wanted Sylwester Suszek to be found.
– He may be watching this, I appeal to him to fulfill the contract and to hand over the private keys to this address – he said in a recording posted on X on Thursday.
Moreover, the president of Zondacrypto noted that recent publications about his exchange in the media led to a sharp increase in the number of withdrawals ordered by customers.
“No financial institution could survive that,” Kral said.
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Zondacrypto – the largest Polish cryptocurrency exchange has serious liquidity problems
According to recent media reports Zondacrypto – the largest Polish cryptocurrency exchange may have serious liquidity problems. “Gazeta Wyborcza” was the first to report these problems to the platform. Her reports showed that the company had stopped paying out money to its customers.
The crisis surrounding the Zondacrypto platform is constantly deepening, and subsequent exchange users are reporting problems with withdrawing funds. Moreover, some clubs sponsored by the stock exchange have not received due payments for months.
On Friday, Minister of Justice Waldemar Żurek announced that the prosecutor's office had initiated criminal proceedings against the Zondacrypto cryptocurrency exchange. This concerns suspicion of fraud and money laundering. The head of the Ministry of Justice also touched on the unexplained disappearance of Sylwester Suszek and pointed to irregularities in the takeover of the company by his partner.
The prosecutor's office made this decision on the same day when the Sejm failed for the second time to reject the presidential veto of the bill on the crypto-assets market. 243 MPs voted to reject the veto, 191 were against and three abstained. 263 votes of support were needed to pass the bill. The lack of an act means that the Polish Financial Supervision Authority still has no tools to suspend public offerings of cryptocurrencies or interrupt their progress.
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Sylwester Suszek is missing. The terrifying account of the sister of the Polish “king of cryptocurrencies”
Sylwester Suszek went missing on March 10, 2022. Since then, the Katowice police have been looking for him and are asking for help from anyone who may have any information about the missing 34-year-old “Bitcoin king”. His company had many clients and turned over billions of zlotys a month. Thanks to her, Sylwester Suszek accumulated enormous wealth. In January 2025, the missing man's sister, Nicole Suszek, admitted in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza” that she was receiving threats and terrifying voice messages.
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On the day he disappeared, the surveillance cameras at the fuel base where Sylwester Suszek was last seen stopped working. The police have still found no trace of the missing person. His body was also not found. His sister Nicole is also searching for the 34-year-old on her own. In an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza” she admitted that she believed Sylwester Suszek was dead.
— Someone kidnapped him and murdered him. I would like to be wrong, but looking at the facts, another scenario seems unlikely, said Nicole Suszek.
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The Polish “king of cryptocurrencies” has disappeared. “Someone wants to cut off his fingers and send them to his family.”
The missing man's sister decided to look for her brother on her own. Thanks to the help of a friend, she managed to locate Sylwester Suszek's phone. It turned out that four days after his disappearance, his number had logged into the Internet. The missing person's phone was “moving” along the A1 motorway in Piekary Śląskie.
— We notified the police, and the command then downloaded the CCTV footage. However, it did not help – the sister of the missing person describes in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
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Shortly after Sylwester Suszka disappeared, Nicole received an e-mail with a recording of a man's voice.
— He sounded like my brother, only a bit electronic. He said he needed help and that I should arrange for bitcoins, which were then worth PLN 12 million, and send them to the address provided in the e-mail. […] The recording was accompanied by a text message: This is not a joke, after a week there will be a photo of the body – reveals Nicole Suszka, adding that she did not transfer the money.
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Later, the missing man's sister received other messages and recordings.
— There was another recording in which a voice similar to my brother said that someone wanted to cut off his fingers and send them to his family, and he dreamed of coming home for Easter — describes Nicole.
The investigation into the case and the search for the missing Sylwester Suszek are still ongoing.
