Do Kwon’s Luxury Cars, Apartments Seized as Courts Freeze $2B of His Assets
South Korean authorities have frozen around $2 billion worth of assets tied to Do Kwon, the CEO of blockchain firm Terraform Labs, as they continue their investigation into the catastrophic...
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