{"id":397319,"date":"2025-07-04T19:20:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T13:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/whiterock-founder-linked-to-30-million-zkasino-scam-arrested-in-uae-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T14:20:04","slug":"whiterock-founder-linked-to-30-million-zkasino-scam-arrested-in-uae-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/whiterock-founder-linked-to-30-million-zkasino-scam-arrested-in-uae-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"WhiteRock Founder Linked to $30 Million Zkasino Scam Arrested in UAE – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ildar Ilham, known as Prometheus on X, was arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today.<\/p>\n

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Less than a month after being connected to the $30 million Zkasino scam, the founder of DeFi protocol WhiteRock, Ildar Ilham, has been taken into custody in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).<\/p>\n

Following his arrest, the 21-year-old, also known as Prometheus on X, is set to be extradited to the Netherlands for trial, following the issuance of an Interpol Red Notice on March 6.<\/p>\n

Onchain sleuth ZachXBT publicly addressed Illham\u2019s connection with Zkasino in June, when he said<\/a>, \u201cAt least one team member from the $30M Zkasino exit scam appears to be involved with the project @WhiteRock_Fi WHITE due to onchain transactions linking both projects and a personal email address.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zkasino originally raised $33 million via a presale in 2024, but contributors were left furious<\/a> after the funds were staked with Lido Finance instead of being returned. It\u2019s worth noting that this is not the team\u2019s first run-in with controversy, as ZachXBT referred to them as \u201cproven bad actors\u201d<\/a> as far back as 2023.<\/p>\n

Onchain evidence<\/a> shows the commingling of stolen Zkasino funds and the WhiteRock marketing wallet.<\/p>\n

WhiteRock, which launched its token in November 2024, also bears its fair share of red flags, with Zach saying, \u201cI think the risk of a rug with WhiteRock remains high due to their history with other projects,\u201d and calling on centralized exchanges to delist the WHITE token.<\/p>\n

WHITE, which launched at a $30 million market capitalization, reached a $2 billion market cap<\/a> in June but now trades at a valuation of $490 million. While the website claims a total value locked (TVL) of over $150 million, the claim is not verifiable through trusted data sources.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ildar Ilham, known as Prometheus on X, was arrested in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today. Less than a month after being connected to the $30 million Zkasino scam, the founder of DeFi protocol WhiteRock, Ildar Ilham, has been taken into custody in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Following his arrest, the 21-year-old, also known […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[274,273,272,244,266,271,268,270,269,267],"class_list":["post-397319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-de-fi","tag-crypto-finance","tag-decentralized-finance","tag-liquidity","tag-metamask","tag-pancake","tag-slippage","tag-sushiswap","tag-tronlink","tag-trust-wallet","tag-uniswap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397323,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397319\/revisions\/397323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}