Buehler was a non-executive member of the supervisory board of BB Trade Estonia OÜ, the owner of Zondacrypto. Apart from him, statements were also published by the chairman of the council, Veronika Togo, and Georgi Dzhanashvili.
The statement said it was issued in light of recent events affecting Zondacrypto, including concerns about customer withdrawals. The following section refers to the decision to resign. “These decisions were made individually and reflect each member's assessment of the situation,” it said.
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The supervisory board emphasized that it learned about Zondacrypto's problems only after publications in the Polish media. “Based on the information analyzed, significant discrepancies were revealed between certain public statements, the actual operational situation and the information previously provided to the supervisory board,” it emphasized.
In the summary, the council members emphasized that they are aware of the uncertainty and anxiety that customers experience. “We sincerely hope that the situation will be resolved quickly and fairly, with the highest priority being the protection of customers' interests,” it noted.
Zondacrypto problems
The media wrote at the beginning of April that the largest Polish cryptocurrency exchange may have serious liquidity problems. The analysis, obtained by money.pl and Wirtualna Polska, revealed a decline in bitcoin reserves of the Zondacrypto exchange by 99%. Users report problems with withdrawing funds, journalists reported.
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“Zondacrypto is a stable, solvent and safe entity, and money.pl's analysis is incorrect, untrue and unfair,” Przemysław Kral, president of Zondacrypto, said in a statement sent at that time.
The Zondacrypto exchange has a portfolio of 4.5 thousand. bitcoins worth over USD 300 million, but – as Kral reported on Thursday – the keys to them are held by the missing Sylwester Suszek, the founder of the BitBay exchange, the predecessor of Zondacrypto. Suszek, referred to as the “king of cryptocurrencies”, went missing in March 2022.
Controversy surrounding the Crypto-Assets Act
The president vetoed the bill on cryptoassets for the first time at the beginning of December last year. and during the vote in the same month, the Sejm did not reject the veto. The government then decided to re-submit the same bill to the Sejm, it was passed and then vetoed again by the president in February this year. This Act differed from the previous one only in the maximum fee for the Polish Financial Supervision Authority's supervision over this market.
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Before the vote on the presidential veto, Prime Minister Tusk said from the Sejm podium that the suffering and drama of several tens of thousands of people are behind the “persistent blocking of the bill” that would enable Poland to prevent situations such as those surrounding the Zondacrypto stock exchange. He added that Zondacrypto's “great career” began in 2022 with a new boss, for money – as the head of government stated, citing information from the Polish services – from the Russian mafia.
The Prime Minister pointed out that Zondacrypto has become a company that “sponsors political and social events in Poland and promotes very specific political forces” – it was “a strategic sponsor of the famous event, the so-called CPAC in Rzeszów, which promoted President Karol Nawrocki, who participated in this meeting, and the previous president (Andrzej Duda) was also heavily involved in this meeting.” The Prime Minister said that, according to estimates, there may be as many as 30,000 people injured in connection with Zondacrypto's activities. people.
An investigation into the possible fraud of customers of the Zondacrypto cryptocurrency exchange was initiated by the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Katowice. According to investigators, the total amount of damage is currently no less than PLN 350 million.
On Friday, the Sejm did not reject the presidential veto to the act on crypto-assets for the second time.
