TRON Plot Thickens: CTO Was Fired for Bribery and Theft, Says Justin Sun
By CCN: Earlier this week the Chief Technical Officer of TRON (TRX) announced his departure from the project. Lucien Chen, who had been with TRON since 2017, laid out a three-point explanation of why ‘TRON is no longer TRON’:
But in the days following his announcement, TRON PR sprung into action. According to official TRON representatives, Lucien Chen was actually fired months ago, in January 2019. The reason:
“Suspicion of misappropriation of funds, bribery, competitive infringement, and theft of trade secrets and intellectual property.”
CEO and founder, Justin Sun, lent validation to this claim by retweeting it, and a reddit thread popped up which relayed this information to the TRX community.
A reported response from @Tronfoundation on the dismissal of CTO Lucien Chen, J. Zhu & X. Xie in Jan 2019 due to suspicion of misappropriation of funds, bribery, competitive infringement, & theft of trade secrets & intellectual property#TRON Reddit link:https://t.co/LeotF31NsS pic.twitter.com/RYMsn2J9rw
— Misha Lederman (@mishalederman) May 11, 2019
But as early as two days ago, Lucien (Zhiqiang) Chen was still listed as the TRON CTO on LinkedIn (now updated). No official announcement was made concerning this apparently huge corporate crime back in January, and TRX developers and investors appear to have been left in the dark this whole time.
Former CTO Sets Fire to TRX On His Way Out
Indeed, the first time Chen’s alleged crimes were mentioned was shortly after he began speaking out against TRON. This has led more than one community member to suspect this amounts to little more than an attempt to divert attention away from Chen’s criticisms of the project – of which there are many.
