Bizarre case involving cryptocurrency firm returns to Halifax courtroom today

The Canadian Press</span>
Published Thursday, February 14, 2019 4:15AM EST
Last Updated Thursday, February 14, 2019 6:34AM EST

HALIFAX -- The bizarre case involving the cryptocurrency firm QuadrigaCX is expected to return to a Halifax courtroom today.

The Nova Scotia Supreme Court has been asked to determine which law firms will represent 115,000 QuadrigaCX clients, who are owed as much as $260 million in cash and cryptocurrency.

The court-appointed monitor overseeing the search for the money said it recently found more than $900,000 in digital assets.

However, Ernst and Young also revealed that someone at QuadrigaCX "inadvertently" shifted about half of those crypto-coins into a site that is now inaccessible to the company.

The Vancouver-based exchange was shut down Jan. 28 after the sudden death of its CEO, 30-year-old Gerald Cotten.

He led his five-year-old virtual business from a home north of Halifax.

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