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Piecing together the financial picture of one of Canada’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges has proven to be a unique challenge.

According to a court-appointed monitor for QuadrigaCX, the company does not have accounting records available to it and did not “systematically” track incoming and outgoing payments. It also does not have a bank account in its name.

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Those circumstances have come to light as part of Quadriga’s filing for creditor protection, which came after the company found itself unable to track down millions of dollars in cryptocurrency following the sudden death of its founder and CEO.

The unique circumstances, lack of financial reporting resources and absence of historical accounting information has caused this to be a challenging process Ernst & Young

One of the duties of Quadriga’s monitor, Ernst & Young, is to review and comment on its cash flows. That posed an issue, according to EY’s pre-filing report.

“The Applicants’ treasury and accounting systems either do not exist or are not capable of recording and producing even the most basic of accounting summaries for the proposed monitor to review and comment upon,” the monitor said in the Jan. 31 report, which was only recently published online as part of Quadriga’s legal proceedings.