As sources who claimed to be engaged with OKEx discloses, the founder of OKEx, XU Mingxing, has been taken away by police. It is revealed that the previously-called “private key holders cooperating with investigation” was referring to XU. According to the sources, XU has been absent from their working group on the social media for days. When asked about the subsequent arrangements of the exchange, he said XU’s absence would affect services including withdrawals and all sorts of costs, for the boss has a thorough control over expenditures. “The platform will be affected, unless someone can have his authorization,” said the source.