Faruk Fatih Ozer, who ran crypto exchange Thodex until it imploded in 2021, was sentenced to 11,196 years in prison by a Turkish court for crimes including fraud.
Delivering its verdict late Thursday, the court in Istanbul sentenced Ozer and his two siblings to similar-length jail terms, finding them guilty of aggravated fraud, leading a criminal organization and money laundering.
Özer was suspected of having fled Turkey and after Interpol issued a red notice for him, he was arrested in Albania last year.
The notice alleged Özer acted with fraudulent intent from the beginning and that Thodex was a criminal organisation.