The widow of the man behind what was once Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchange is finally sharing her side of the story after his sudden death three years ago.
Gerald Cotten was just 30 when he died in India in December 2018. He took to his grave the passcodes that locked about $250 million in other people’s assets in his exchange, QuadrigaCX.
In the months that followed, investigators uncovered that Cotten had been moving money from the exchange into his personal accounts and engaging in other suspicious behaviour.
Jennifer Robertson told CBC’s The National she knew nothing of the widespread fraud her husband had committed.
“I just really hated the questions, like, it
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