But why would a recognized criminal stay this long without being sentenced already, this is pure wickedness.

The rich are simply backed even when they are obviously wrong.
My wishes are not harsh but for him to serve as a scapegoat to others who thinks money laundering and internet fraud shouldn't be tackled roughly.

yes and no... depends what spreadsheet you read as to holdings/value...... and amounts lost/found

for instance most debt is based on FTT tokens(valueless and speculative)

it had maybe 20k in bitcoin

all the media hype of "worth $32billion" "9billion missing"  "$3.x billion" "$1.x bilion"
these numbers are getting lower and lower by the month


there is.. and it even comes with a point scoring system too..
https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/guidelines-manual/2015/2B1.1.pdf
(read the "base levels" (points/score). find the add-ons for severity/amounts lost.. .. then substitute any take offs for first offense or plead guilty before trials (plea deals)

heres one example
https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/2021-guidelines-manual/annotated-2021-chapter-5


so if guilty he scores 37 on just that 1 charge



210-262 months for first offense(no history) = 17.5-21.9 years

South Korea issued an arrest warrant for Do Kwon last September but he is still on the run. Latest news is that he is currently hiding in Europe (Serbia) so no jail for him yet.


I was pessimistic at first too, but after how buddies pleaded guilty and getting away with fines and no prison as long as they cooperate, I don't think that the will avoid some jail time alltogether. I don't expect him getting like 30 years in prison, but I can see him spending couple of years in a minimum security prison.

What if he eventually pleads guilty before trial starts, you don't think that he can get better deal than those 17.5 years? I for sure hope that you are right, but I would be very surprised if he gets anything remotely close to that sentence.


In my country rich people regularly get lower sentences than they should according to the law on the count of some bullshit reason and I would be surprised if its not like that in the United States too.

It appears the quickness and speed of how long the regulators act on a case also depends on who were scammed by the scammers. Sam Bankrupt-Fried has chosen the wrong people to scam hehehehe. According to some news articles, the investors that Sam scammed included Robert Kraft the owner of the New England Patriots, Tom Brady the quarterback of Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his super model wife Gisselle Bünchen, Joe Tsai the cofounder of Alibaba and other sports celebrities.

Do Kwon might have done it correctly because he only scammed his users and his fellow ponzi schemers hehe. It is speculated that he is in Singapore.

Various media have reported on Do kown hiding locations in Singapore and Serbia, maybe your explanation above is very logical because without the involvement of important people in the loss case, the case will be handled slowly and may not be prioritized. Even if the reason is due to the extradition process because South Korea does not have an extradition agreement with the Council of Europe, any efforts can be communicated with other countries to help the process of catching fraud perpetrators even if they are in the territory of other countries. This case is very different from FTX, SBF has been arrested even though he is in another country and of course the role of the victim from important people is very influential to emphasize that this case must be resolved immediately.

Relatively easy bureaucracy has made many former criminal cases ranging from fraud until to corruption cases feel quite comfortable living in Singapore. Seems Singapore give special thing for people facing criminal cases and run away much money, have possibility with Do Kwon save and use Singapore casino as place for saving his assets based on happening in my country when corrupt hold his money at Singapore Casino.

South Korea have build with serious bilateral relations between countries are detecting hidden place for Do Kwon between Singapore or Serbia, have to give punishment after stealing much investor money and make him poor without have anything in his pocket.

For sure there is a higher level of culpability that would likely already need to be known to take someone into custody right away (upon serving a Subpoena or something like that), and then even if they had taken him into custody, in order to actually keep him in custody, they would have had to have had a decent amount of evidence to feel confident (and to show a judge) that he was guilty of a crime that involved jail time and that he was likely to be convicted and sentenced to such crime and jail time and also that he was a flight risk.. ..

You seem to be getting ahead of yourself if you are expecting that USA authorities were even close to having that level of criminal culpability or that much confidence in their case against Do Kwon in September 2021..

Yeah, they took one of the Bitmex founders into custody quite quickly, so sure it is possible that they might have had enough evidence to take Do Kwon into custody.. but I don't know.. it just seems to me that you are engaging in wishful thinking (and even Monday morning quarter-backing to see what happened later - in May 2022 and thereafter) to presume that the USA authorities had a sufficient amount of criminal evidence in September 2021 when the served that subpoena on him... .. and it does not even appear that the September 2021 subpoena was criminal in nature.. only a civil subpoena at that time... there's a difference between a civil and a criminal subpoena, you know?).

copying from other topic to save re-writing
i explained his charges and sentencing "points" better here(previous page of THIS topic)


key details:
he didnt have $100b of VIABLE real assets..
he had~20k btc (min value $340m) meaning if he defraided/mismanaged/ stole then the charges are higher than $1m

id say his business was maybe $8bill value. and his frauds were worth more then $340m