The alleged thief within the assist of a heist of more than $11 million in XRP from the widow of nation music icon George Jones has filed a countersuit against Nancy Jones.
Kirk West, a resident of Nashville, Tennessee, became arrested closing twelve months for the alleged theft of $400,000 in cash and more than 5.5 million XRP tokens—valued at higher than $11.6 million at this day’s prices—from Nancy Jones. West’s suit alleges that he became entitled to a share of the funds and is a sufferer of fraud and defamation, in response to Rolling Stone.
The pair connected within the months following George Jones’ death in 2013 when West claimed he became drawn to shopping the Jones’ home, in response to court documents originally reported on by Nashville’s WKRN.
Almost at present thereafter, Nancy Jones and West grew to become romantically fervent, and in 2016—whereas below home arrest for two counts of prison bank fraud—West grew to become a self-proclaimed “crypto knowledgeable.”
West reportedly persuaded the widowed Jones to assemble important positions in XRP, Ethereum (ETH), Dogecoin (DOGE), Shiba Inu (SHIB), and Stellar (XLM). An affidavit connected to a restraining snort also alleges that West stole SHIB and ETH positions from Jones.
In 2020, West allegedly bought extra tokens—like Terra (which collapsed in 2022), Flare (FLR), Monero (XMR), and Songbird (SGB)—on Jones’ behalf by ability of Crypto.com and Uphold.
After kicking West out of her home closing twelve months attributable to a suspected affair, Jones then stumbled on that a Ledger hardware pockets which safe the keys to her crypto holdings became missing from her safe. With the assist of attorneys, she became in a yell to salvage better correct over 5 million of the XRP tokens, but more than 483,000 XRP—now valued at more than $1 million—remained unrecovered.
While Jones claims that West stole the crypto from her, West is now denying the instruct, alleging he “made a range of shining investments over the route of the events’ relationship which constructed mountainous wealth for them,” and is now entitled to a share of the belongings. Those belongings furthermore encompass $5 million in gold and silver and $1 million in cash, in response to Rolling Stone.
West’s Friday countersuit submitting became the first document update for the case since non-public subpoenas had been filed in October, in response to the Williamson County on-line court records system. The 58-twelve months gentle is searching for half of the crypto, cash, and treasured metals from the time he left Jones’ home closing twelve months.
Decrypt reached out to the laws place of job for West’s attorney Dana McLendon Regulation, but did no longer at present receive a response.
