Mark Karpeles, the former chief of Mt. Gox Co., once one of the world's largest bitcoin digital currency exchanges, was acquitted Friday of embezzling hundreds of millions of yen from its customers in 2013 but found guilty of manipulating electronic data.The Tokyo District Court sentenced the French-born former CEO of the Tokyo-based exchange that went under in 2014 to 30 months in prison, suspended for four years.It recognized the 33-year-old had altered data on the company's trading system to pad the amount in his accounts, as he sought to prevent his company from becoming cash-strapped."…READ FULL ARTICLE