U.S. officials have filed criminal charges against Avraham Eisenberg, who exploited the DeFi platform Mango Markets earlier this year.
Damian Williams, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a Dec. 27 court filing that Eisenberg was arrested on Monday in Puerto Rico.
William’s filing also ordered the unsealing of an earlier complaint dated Dec. 23. In that complaint, FBI agent Brandon Racz described how Eisenberg participated in a scheme in which he intentionally and artificially manipulated perpetual futures contracts on Mango Markets to steal approximately $110 million around Oct. 11.
Racz’s account of the scheme broadly says that Eisenberg used two accounts to inflate the price of MNGO Perpetuals relative to the USDC stablecoin. Eisenberg also borrowed, swapped, and withdrew various assets in order to profit from the scheme.
Eisenberg has been known as the perpetrator of the Mango attack since Oct. 15, when he publicly admitted to carrying out said attac
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