Was crypto fugitive Do Kwon found with a Trezor stick near his groin area at the time of his arrest in Montenegro? No, that's not true: the claim appeared on Twitter as a joke with an image that superimposed a box onto body scans published by a scientific study.
The claim appeared in a video (archived here) where it was published on Tiktok by @mingudi on May 26, 2023. The video opened with a widely circulated photo of the fallen cryptocurrency mogul reclining on a couch and a caption that read:
Do Kwon, who has sent the crypto market into a tailspin with the Luna fiasco, was recently arrested.
This is what the post looked like on TikTok at the time of writing:
(Source: TikTok screenshot taken on Wed Jun 21 17:05:43 2023 UTC)
The video alleged that upon his arrest, Kwon underwent an X-Ray scan that revealed a Trezor stick, a cryptocurrency hardware wallet the size of a key fob, near his groin area.
It showed a screencap of a Tweet by @GrindingPoet (archived here) that read:
[DB] Trezor stick found in Terra founder Do Kwon during thorough Body Inspection ~ Reuters
No such report by Reuters could be found. Another Twitter user, @StreetTraderJPP, replied with an image that also appeared in the Tiktok video. The image showed two side-by-side body composition scans known as a Dual X-ray Absorptiometry scan--a fat mass scan and a skeletal X-ray--with a box photoshopped near the groin area. Two red circles were placed around the box to direct attention, and the skeletal X-ray was labeled "Do Kwon" on the bottom left.
The image was originally published by a scientific study from 2013 that examined the differences in body fat across various ethnicities. Here is the original image, without the photoshopped box and name:
