Breaking: Celsius Network Founder Sentenced to 12 Years in Prison for Crypto Fraud

Alex Mashinsky, the co-founder of defunct crypto lender platform Celsius Network, was sentenced to a 12-year jail term on May 8. This sentence follows a series of legal proceedings that followed his guilty plea last December over his firm’s collapse. Specifically, Alex Mashinky was sentenced for misappropriating customers’ funds and manipulating the CEL token.