{"id":1025896,"date":"2026-08-03T11:31:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025896"},"modified":"2026-08-03T12:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T07:22:27","slug":"crypto-company-ceo-stole-5-million-from-his-own-company-erased-194-expense-records-and-then-abruptly-resigned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/03\/crypto-company-ceo-stole-5-million-from-his-own-company-erased-194-expense-records-and-then-abruptly-resigned\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto company CEO stole $5 million from his own company, erased 194 expense records and then abruptly resigned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency data company Bitquery has been accused of stealing more than $5 million from the business before deleting nearly 200 financial records and abruptly resigning. Dionysios \u201cDean\u201d Karakitsos, 57, allegedly transferred company funds to accounts linked to himself and his associates over several years, according to a lawsuit filed by Bitquery in Manhattan Supreme Court. The lawsuit further claims Karakitsos, who left the company in October 2025, allegedly deleted 194 expense and bill records from its accounting system.<\/p>\n<p>Bitquery lawsuit alleges CEO transferred company funds to personal accounts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency data company Bitquery has been accused of stealing more than $5 million from the business before deleting nearly 200 financial records and abruptly resigning. Dionysios \u201cDean\u201d Karakitsos, 57, allegedly transferred company funds to accounts linked to himself and his associates over several years, according to a lawsuit filed by Bitquery in Manhattan Supreme Court. The lawsuit further claims Karakitsos, who left the company in October 2025, allegedly deleted 194 expense and bill records from its accounting system. Bitquery lawsuit alleges CEO transferred company funds to personal accounts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025897,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025896\/revisions\/1025897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}