Canadian police force house Miller Thomson has made a request to the Purple Canadian Mounted Law (RCMP) to conduct an exhumation and postal service-mortem autopsy on the body of Gerald Cotten, the deceased owner of the now-defunct Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX.

On Dec. xiii, the Miller Thomson lawyers explained in a alphabetic character to the RCMP that the asking to exhume and examine Cotten's body was appropriate given the "questionable circumstances surrounding Mr. Cotten's death and the significant losses" sustained by users of the cryptocurrency exchange.

Victims need clarity on whether Gerald Cotten is in fact deceased

The police force firm further points to publicly available information almost the debacle surrounding the Canadian crypto commutation, which, in the firm's view, farther highlights "the need for certainty around the question of whether Mr. Cotten is in fact deceased."

Over the past year, the commutation has been engaged in a lengthy court example with the substitution's creditors, some of whom have speculated wildly equally to the fate of the lost cryptocurrency, and with some seemingly convinced that Cotton wool could have faked his ain death.

Cotton wool reportedly died in India from a fatal affliction in December 2022, taking with him the private keys and password to crypto wallets, resulting in users losing about $190 1000000.

Widow of Gerald Cotten hands over $9 million in assets to disgruntled users

In Oct, the widow of Gerald Cotten, Jennifer Robertson, handed over $9 million in assets to the users of the QuadrigaCX crypto commutation. Robertson announced in a personal statement, that she would be transferring the vast majority of estate assets to EY Canada, the Large Four inspect firm that acted as the bankruptcy trustee of QuadrigaCX during its insolvency hearings. She said at the time:

"I have at present entered into a voluntary settlement agreement where the vast majority of my assets and all of the Manor'due south assets are existence returned to QCX to do good the Affected Users."