{"id":53205,"date":"2021-11-19T16:46:36","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=53205"},"modified":"2025-09-03T14:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:01:25","slug":"kuna-founder-says-he-was-tailed-by-unknown-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/kuna-founder-says-he-was-tailed-by-unknown-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Kuna founder says he was tailed by unknown parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The founder of the Kuna cryptocurrency exchange, Mikhail Chobanian <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/michaelchobanian\/1221\">said<\/a> that he was subjected to surveillance organized by representatives of \u201ccertain structures.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cFor two weeks, I was tailed. Different people, different cars, dummy plates \u2014 all like in a movie,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Chobanian added that unknown observers were tracking his movements: \u201cwhen I arrived at and left the office, whom I was meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the entrepreneur, this is being used to stage a provocation against the crypto community.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWhen that moment arrives, I would like us to understand that this is an attack not against me, but against crypto in Ukraine and the Blockchain Association, of which I am president,\u201d Chobanian said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a ForkLog interview, the Kuna founder said he does not plan to take any retaliatory actions for now:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cIf there is an attack, there will be a response. If not, we will move on. This is a negative image for Ukraine. I am not interested in that at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in November 2015, officers from Kyiv\u2019s Cybercrime Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted a search of Mikhail Chobanian\u2019s apartment. The trigger was a criminal case opened against him the previous year on charges of illicit bitcoin operations. Subsequently, Chobanian won a case challenging the illegality of the search and recovered 39 units of equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2021, Kuna ranked 13th out of 30 in Forbes\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/kuna-valued-at-50-100-million-in-forbes-ranking\">best technology startups in the country<\/a>, with an estimated value of $50\u2013100 million, according to Forbes.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder of the Kuna cryptocurrency exchange Mikhail Chobanian said that he was subjected to surveillance organized by representatives of \u201csome structures.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[117,1563,16],"class_list":["post-53205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-kuna","tag-mikhail-chobanyan","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"31","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53207,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53205\/revisions\/53207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}