LM-2022-000125 - [2025] EWHC 1823 (Comm)

The Rolls Building

7 Rolls Buildings

Fetter Lane, London

EC4A 1NL

Date of hearing: 10 June 2025

Before:

HIS HONOUR JUDGE RICHARD PEARCE

(Sitting as a Judge of the High Court)

Between:

GARY JONES

Claimant/Respondent

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(1) PERSONS UNKNOWN

(Being the individuals or companies who obtained access to the Claimant’s accounts

between about 22.01.2019 and 10.01.2020 and carried out the transactions [on or about the

same dates] as a result of which the crypto currencies held in those accounts were

transferred to other accounts (“Transferred Assets”))

(2) PERSONS UNKNOWN

(Being the individuals or companies who own or control the accounts into which the

Transferred Assets were transferred other than purchasers for full value)

(3) PERSONS UNKNOWN

(Being the individuals or companies who are innocent receivers who have no reasonable

grounds for thinking that what has appeared in their account belongs to the

Claimant/Respondent)

(4) HUOBI GLOBAL LIMITED
(A company registered in the Seychelles)

Defendants

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KYRREX LIMITED

(A company registered in St Vincent and the Grenadines)

Third Party/CPR 40.9 Applicant

MR DAVID MCILROY (instructed by HCR Legal LLP) for the Claimant/Respondent

THE FIRST TO FOURTH DEFENDANTS did not appear and were not represented

MR MARK LORRELL (instructed by Healys LLP) for the Interested Party/CPR 40.9 Applicant

Approved Judgment

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