- The house with a mining farm in the basement is in southern Ontario.
- It is valued at $4.2 million. The mansion is abandoned but still in excellent condition, researchers noted.
- The media says it may have belonged to Aiden Platersky, also known as Crypto King.
Researcher and photographer Michael Lalonde discovered an abandoned mansion in southern Ontario. Media reports say it may belong to investor Aiden Platersky, better known as Crypto King.
“This house was built in 1941. It has a two-car garage, hot tub, upper patio and outdoor pool,” Lalonde writes.
The mansion sold for $2.2 million in 2020. The identity of the buyer is unknown. The photographer himself values the estate at more than $4 million.
In the basement of the house, Lalonde found dozens of boxes of chipsets and video cards. There’s also a room lined with foil.
There was no equipment itself, but the photographer says he immediately understood the purpose of the room. There were many cables leading to the room, and there were also racks for “trusses.”
In late July 2023, Freaktography contributor Dave visited the mansion. In his video, he stated that the house was rumored to belong to the scandalous Crypto King. This was also mentioned by The Sun.
Who is Aiden Platersky?”
In December 2021, he floated AP Private Equity Limited on the Canadian market. The firm offered potential clients cryptocurrency investment solutions with high returns.
In August 2022, the organization filed for bankruptcy. The company had liabilities to 119 creditors with $2.2 million in available assets. As it turned out, Platerski only reinvested about 1.6 percent of the funds provided, the NYT reported.
In December 2022, he was kidnapped, then held for three days, demanding a payment of 3 million Canadian dollars ($2.2 million). He was then released; whether Platerski paid the ransom is unknown.
In July 2023, the five kidnappers were arrested, the NYT reported. One of them turned out to be 39-year-old Akil Heywood, who invested $740,000 in Platersky’s company.
The bankruptcy case of AP Private Equity Limited is still pending.
We previously reported that Huobi founder Li Lin may have bought one of the most expensive villas in Hong Kong. The creator of the Curve Finance project, Mikhail Egorov, in turn, bought two mansions in Melbourne.