2013-11-11 Coindesk: $4.1m goes missing as Chinese bitcoin trading platform GBL

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GBL, a Chinese bitcoin trading platform that claimed to be based in Hong Kong, recently shut down an event that might not be worthy of note had ¥25m ($4.1m) worth of users money not disappeared with it.

http://www.coindesk.com/4-1m-goes-missing-chinese-bitcoin-trading-platform-gbl-vanishes/

Picked up quickly from Coindesk by many other sites.

http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-exchange-gbl-holding-41-billion-vanishes-2013-11

http://pandodaily.com/2013/11/11/fraud-at-this-chinese-bitcoin-exchange-cost-clients-4-1m-but-the-broader-market-barely-noticed/

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/521557/20131112/chinese-bitcoin-exchange-gbl-vanishes-takes-coins.htm