The Recent Wave of Mysterious Deaths in Crypto

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Tiant­ian Kul­lan­der – Co-Founder of the cryp­to firm Amber Group – unex­pect­ed­ly passed away in his sleep at the age of 30.

The bear mar­ket neg­a­tive­ly affect­ed his firm, which had to dis­miss around 10% of its staff ear­li­er this year. In addi­tion, Amber Group recent­ly revealed it had been an “active trad­ing par­tic­i­pant” on the bank­rupt cryp­to exchange FTX. It remains unknown whether his death has some con­nec­tion to the afore­men­tioned events.H

How­ev­er, he’s not the only one with sim­i­lar faith recently.

The Curious Case of Kullander

The cryp­to com­mu­ni­ty was recent­ly shocked by the unex­pect­ed death of Tiant­ian Kul­lan­der, also known as “TT.” The Hong Kong busi­ness­man who pre­vi­ous­ly worked at Mor­gan Stan­ley and Gold­man Sachs passed away in his sleep, aged just 30.

Sources did not pro­vide infor­ma­tion on where he died or whether he suf­fered from some dis­eases, which log­i­cal­ly trig­gered speculation.

His com­pa­ny – Amber Group – was once val­ued at near­ly $3 bil­lion but, sim­i­lar to many oth­er firms in the sec­tor, took a major punch due to the cryp­to win­ter. It laid off around 10% of its total work­force in Sep­tem­ber to cut costs dur­ing the chal­leng­ing times. 

“We are cur­rent­ly reduc­ing in roles that are low­er in pri­or­i­ty giv­en mar­ket con­di­tions and increas­ing head­count in roles that are high­er pri­or­i­ty,” Kul­lan­der said at the time.

In addi­tion, Amber Group had some rela­tion to the col­lapsed cryp­to giant FTX. The enti­ty dis­closed ear­li­er this month that it has no expo­sure to Alame­da Research or the for­mer SBF exchange. Nonethe­less, it has been an “active trad­ing par­tic­i­pant” on FTX.

“How­ev­er, with strict expo­sure lim­its on indi­vid­ual trad­ing venues, this rep­re­sents <10% of our total trad­ing cap­i­tal. It does not pose a threat to our busi­ness oper­a­tions or liq­uid­i­ty,” Amber Group assured.

Numer­ous col­leagues of Kul­lan­der expressed their con­do­lences to his fam­i­ly. Annabelle Huang, a man­ag­ing part­ner at Amber Group, said: 

“Lost a dear friend who has changed my life, among many oth­ers, in ways he didn’t realize.”

Amber Group described TT as a “respect­ed leader, devot­ed hus­band, a lov­ing father, and a fierce friend.” His death is a “tragedy, and our thoughts and prayers are with his fam­i­ly,” the cryp­to firm added.

Tiantian Kullander
Tiant­ian Kul­lan­der , Source: MARCA

Taran’s Helicopter Went Down

Anoth­er mys­te­ri­ous death is the one of Vyach­eslav Taran. The 53-year-old Russ­ian lost his life after the heli­copter he was trav­el­ing in crashed in Switzer­land. The acci­dent hap­pened in good weath­er con­di­tions, while anoth­er pas­sen­ger decid­ed not to fly last minute.

Ukrain­ian news agency UNIAN main­tained Taran was a “bil­lion­aire cryp­to busi­ness­man with like­ly ties to the Russ­ian For­eign Intel­li­gence Ser­vice.” Some reports hint­ed he could have been part of an espi­onage agency and was respon­si­ble for “laun­der­ing Russ­ian funds through a sys­tem of cryp­tocur­ren­cy operations.”

The bil­lion­aire has a wife and three chil­dren and has lived in Mona­co for the past ten years. Lib­er­tex – the trad­ing venue he co-found­ed – expressed the team’s “most heart­felt con­do­lences and sym­pa­thy” to his family.

Mushegian Also Found Dead

As Cryp­toPota­to report­ed ear­li­er this month, Niko­lai Mushe­gian drowned at sea in San Huan, Puer­to Rico, after swim­ming in a high­ly dan­ger­ous area. 

The death of the devel­op­er came a few days after he post­ed a tweet, insist­ing “CIA and Mossad and pedo elite are run­ning some kind of sex traf­fick­ing entrap­ment black­mail ring out of Puer­to Rico and Caribbean islands.” He also claimed those agen­cies would “tor­ture him to death.” 

The cryp­to com­mu­ni­ty was quick to react, and some doubt­ed his drown­ing could be a mur­der. Twit­ter user going by the ini­tials “Smoky Bear” said:

“Tweets 4 days ago about CIA, Mossad, and pedo elites and fear­ing for his life … Found dead yes­ter­day. Not in msm … and of course the “few” are spread­ing rumors of his men­tal health. Pedo elites are real … why Epstein sui­cid­ed himself.”

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