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JAIPUR: The CEO of Canadian cryptocurrency firm QuadrigaCX spent a day at the Fortis Escorts hospital in the city, before dying of a cardiac arrest on December 9, 2018. He was suffering from Crohn's Disease and was in Jaipur to open an orphanage.

Gerald Cotten was accompanied by his wife Jennifer Kathleen Margaret Robertson to the hospital, according to documents, and was admitted on December 8, 2018.

As per the documents (a copy of which is with TOI ), Gerald Cotten was admitted on December 8, 2018. Hospital officials said Cotten, on admission, was diagnosed with " septic shock , perforation, peritonitis , intestinal obstruction" and was a known case of Crohn's disease.

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They said he had complained of watery stools, vomiting, crampy abdominal pain, and was feeling feverish. His vital kept deteriorating and he developed recurrent episodes of cardiac arrest before being declared dead at 7.26pm.

Spokesperson for Fortis Escorts Pragya Sharma confirmed his admission and death at the hospital.

On December 10, 2018, the Jaipur police gave his wife a no objection certificate (NOC) to take the body back home to Nova Scotia , Canada. A death certificate was also issued by the local municipal corporation.

On his death, Cotten took with him passwords locking upto $190 million in investor cryptocurrency. Experts have not been able to unlock the encrypted password, throwing his clients into a tizzy.



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