WHEN multi-millionaire crypto whizkid Gerry Cotten suddenly died on a dream honeymoon to India he left one hell of a mess behind – with some questioning whether he was really dead at all.
At the time he was the 30-year-old founder and CEO of Canada’s leading cryptocurrency exchange Quadriga, living life in the fast lane.
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Running the business from his MacBook Pro as he traveled the world, Cotten had stacked enough wealth to afford a $500,000 CAD yacht he named the Gulliver, a single-engine Cessna airplane, luxury cars, and a rental property empire for his besotted wife to run.
What became apparent after his death in December 2018, however, was that Quadriga was a giant Ponzi scheme which came crashing down once Cotten was dead and gone.
With him went all the passwords to access Quadriga’s approximately quarter billion US dollars in funds, leaving 76,000 angry investors high and dry and with some having lost their entire life savings.
Some suspect to this day that the baby-faced entrepreneur had began to run out of road for his lies and it was all too convenient that he had suddenly passed away of…
