TVN’s “Supervisor” reporters prepared a report about the backstage of BitBay – the Polish cryptocurrency exchange. They claim that they were initially offered 100,000 PLN, and then one million PLN in exchange for resigning from preparing the report and destroying the materials. Journalists point out that the capital for BitBay could have come from VAT scams not recovered by the prosecution. President and co-founder of BitBay Sylwester Suszek referred to the matter.
- BitBay CEO hired a detective
- He accuses the TVN reporter of persuading the man to play a role in order to destroy the reputation of the stock exchange and himself
- He intends to demand compensation from the authors of the report
Suszek believes that in recent months the BitBay exchange has become “the victim of an unlawful provocation aimed at weakening its image.” He claims that TVN Supervisor collected false material. He also accuses the author of the report that he used a person he knew and she staged “giving a financial benefit by a person allegedly associated with the BitBay exchange”.
In the material entitled “The Polish King of Bitcoins and its connections” TVN reporters reveal that among the main shareholders and partners of the BitBay stock exchange are people with a criminal past and sentences. “We began to look at the stock market, which advertises itself as the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Poland, and we found very strange, shady connections with typical analog criminals who were previously convicted of robberies, pimping,” says Michał Fuja, a reporter in the announcement of the material.
Sylwester Suszek comments on the BitBay stock market report
“I haven’t seen such badly prepared material for a long time. It’s one big absurdity” – comments Sylwester Suszek in a video published on YouTube. He denies that his name is on the criminal record. “We were checked by all services – from the Internal Security Agency, the Central Bureau of Investigation and I don’t know what else. What was said in the report about some pimps and so on is another nonsense,” says Suszek in a recording from June 27.
BitBay also published a statement regarding the material of the Supervisor in which we read:
As a result of an internal investigation, which we conducted in cooperation with a detective company, a person was found who was supposed to give Michał Fuji a material benefit. This man was persuaded by a journalist to play a role in a kind of staging, the recording of which was to depreciate my credibility and the reputation of the BitBay exchange itself. The said man decided to testify the truth and become a witness in the case expressing regret and feeling responsible towards the dishonest behavior detrimental to the good name of BitBay.
Suszek informed that has already taken legal action “to protect my good name and the reputation of the stock exchange”.
“We will demand very much redress from the authors of the report and the television station. All the redress obtained will be allocated to support the activities of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity” – he announced.
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