Israeli crypto entrepreneur joins privacy-focused project amid fraud allegations
Moshe Hogeg said he was a “small” but “significant” part of the Tomi team, handling a network solution that seemed to allow transactions of ERC-20 tokens without an Etherscan record.
Moshe Hogeg, an Israeli entrepreneur, has returned to the spotlight of the crypto industry after speaking at a conference in Morocco on ‘alternative internet network’ Tomi.
Speaking at the Nakamoto Forum in Marrakech on June 6, Hogeg was one of a handful of project leaders at Tomi who spoke on the network’s privacy features to a crowd of investors, representatives from crypto and blockchain firms, and members of the media. The entrepreneur was arrested by Israeli authorities in November 2021 for allegedly engaging in financial fraud related to cryptocurrency as well as trafficking and underage prostitution.
In an interview with Cointelegraph, Hogeg compared himself to other industry leaders including Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, who was targeted by United States authorities in their case against the global exchange. The Israeli entrepreneur claimed officials understood the power of public opinion among those in crypto and the financial world, and conducted “a well-orchestrated attack” to damage his reputation.
“I see that more and more key figures in the crypto industry are becoming targets to authorities,” Hogeg told Cointelegraph. “Whenever there’s something like this [...