News Crypto Exchange Founder Fled With $2 Billion Busted, Faces 40,000 Years in Jail

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Turkish crypto exchange founder who absconded with $2 billion last year caught, now faces 40,000 years of jail time.

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[Gam3r01]

Shocker

 

[logainofhades]

I have never understood the idiocy of long sentences, that nobody would ever live through. This one is definitely the weirdest of them all, that I have seen.

 

[Gam3r01]

I have never understood the idiocy of long sentences, that nobody would ever live through. This one is definitely the weirdest of them all, that I have seen.

The way it was explained to me is if someone gets a "life" sentence of say 100 years, but either their lawyer or some other way get their sentence reduced they could get out without serving the remainder of their life in prison.
By giving them some ridiculously high number of years, no matter how much they do to work down their sentence, its still "for life" without having to say it directly.

 

[logainofhades]

100yrs with no chance of parole would be plenty enough.

 

[USAFRet]

XX years for each count.

 

[watzupken]

I have never understood the idiocy of long sentences, that nobody would ever live through. This one is definitely the weirdest of them all, that I have seen.

I agree. I guess they wanted to show the number just so that people get a sense how severe is the punishment. But it makes no sense whatsoever to give an unrealistic number. So they are going to keep the bones in the cell for the next 39950 years, assuming the person continues to live for another 50 years in prison?

 

[thisisaname]

Yeah but ridiculously high prison sentences don't make sense still from the standpoint of why we even have prison sentences instead of say a death penalty.

The one reason you have a prison sentence over a death penalty is not that they have an equal amount of punishment to do with community expectation; after all then we would not only have death sentences, but also have to allow torture as a way of a 'disincentive' to criminality.
No the reason you have a sentence and not straight state ordered murder, is you believe that people can be rehabilitated and allowing them to 'prove' that they are on the right track and thus have a sentence reduced is an effective balance to the idea of some form of impactful & meaningful penalty to the individual so that they can learn (note not set an example).

What you are saying effectively with a ridiculously huge sentence is we sentence you against the spirit of our judicial system (to rehabilitate) to an agonizingly slow boring death in jail; and that you may as well not try to rehabilitate yourself and as such become more vicious and 'evil' because there's no incentive for you to become better.
In what way then do you decrease criminality in any way more than a death sentence and yet; I don't know how they do prisons in turkey, but in Australia that's a whole lot of extra punishment going to taxpayers who did nothing wrong who could use for example a more effective & responsive police force for what are arguably worse crimes then effectively destroying some investment funding.
You know rape, murder and kidnapping.

A lot of people like the idea of someone rotting in jail.

 

[mitch074]

100yrs with no chance of parole would be plenty enough.

Good behaviour : halved. Sickness : again, halved. Negociated : cut by a third. You're now facing a 17 years sentence out of 100.
With 40 000 years, you still get 6666 years to spend in jail.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Good behaviour : halved. Sickness : again, halved. Negociated : cut by a third. You're now facing a 17 years sentence out of 100.
With 40 000 years, you still get 6666 years to spend in jail.

The way it should be. He got what was deserved

 

[peachpuff]

I like this guy, if you're going to steal then steal big.

 

[husker]

"The local police found the former Thodex chief exec in Vlorë, Albania's third most famous city..."
What are the first 2? Also, is there a fourth most famous Albanian city or does the official ranking stop at 3?

 

[criticaloftom]

In 3rd most famous Albanian City Bitcoin Mine You!

 

[criticaloftom]

replaced with silence.