The lawyers representing the users of Quadriga, a broken cryptocurrency exchange platform, point to the "questionable circumstances" surrounding the death of founder Gerald Cotten. They allege that exhumation is necessary given the "questionable circumstances" in which Gerald Cotten died.

Cotten died suddenly last year in India of complications related to Crohn's disease.

After his death, it was not possible to locate or secure significant cryptocurrency reserves on the platform.

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When Cotten died, the 30-year-old founder was the only person who had access passwords to digital wallets that contained $ 137 million in cryptocurrencies.

His premature death forced the closure of QuadrigaCX, which had up to 115,000 users at one time.

Exhumation and autopsy
Online rumors have emerged speculating that Cotten faked his own death so he could run away with the funds and evade justice, but no evidence of that has emerged in the year since he died.

On Friday, a legal team representing clients of the platform in the bankruptcy process sent a letter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, requesting the exhumation and autopsy of Cotten's body "to confirm both his identity and the cause of death ".

They say that the information revealed during the process "once again highlights the need to be certain about the question of whether Mr. Cotten is indeed dead."

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Previously, a report by the audit firm Ernst & Young encountered considerable problems in how the platform was managed, including the discovery that Cotten had created certain accounts in Quadriga using pseudonyms that may have been used to trade or exchange.

It was also found that substantial portions of funds were personally transferred to Cotten and other related parties.

The audit firm managed to rescue approximately US $ 25 million of lost funds.

In August he confirmed being aware of "at least four independent reviews of security agencies or regulators that are in progress" related to the bankruptcy of the platform. Among these is the FBI.

In a statement sent through her lawyer, on Friday, Cotten's widow said she was "distressed to hear about this request."

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Jennifer Robertson said that the death of her late husband "should not be doubted", adding that it was not clear how the confirmation of this "could help in the process of recovery of property"