Odaily Planet Daily News ZachXBT published an investigation on the identity of the 50x leveraged whale on Hyperliquid on the X platform. By tracking on-chain transactions, it was found that a person named "William Parker" was related to the 50x leveraged whale on Hyperliquid. Last year, he was arrested for stealing about $1 million from two casinos in 2023 and sentenced in Finland. Before that, he was called Alistair Packover (William Peckover), and later changed his name.
In the early 2010s, Alistair Packover made headlines in the UK several times for fraud charges related to hacking and gambling. It is clear that he has not learned his lesson after serving years for fraud and may continue to gamble. The funds are currently mainly stored in:
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