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The Pump.fun exploiter claims he was arrested in the UK and is currently on bail.

A former employee of Pump.fun, the Memecoin creation and trading platform that is said to have recently carried out a $1.9 million exploit, claims he has been arrested, charged and is currently out on bail in the UK.

On May 16, an claimed responsibility. .

In a series of posts on May 18 on different Released on bail and mental health unit.”

source: Jarrett Dunn

Dunn added that he is currently in the hospital and is posting from an iPad he received from the hospital. He added that his mental health had been “interrogated and I would be unfit for (police) interview” and that could happen after bail if he was fit for questioning.

Dunn, a Canadian national, added that the local embassy had emailed his family a “list of lawyers” but that he “can’t communicate with them” until the devices, “two-fifths of which were confiscated,” are recovered.

He said he still had his passport and that authorities had not warned him that he would not be allowed to leave the country.

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In a message to another X user, The Rollup, Dunn said he would have to return to the police station on August 15. The account also claims that a private intelligence company was hired to find Dunn in London.

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Pump.fun did not respond to a request for comment. A private intelligence firm reportedly involved in locating Dunn did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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