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  • Frozen embryos will keep accused $4.5 billion bitcoin money launderers from fleeing U.S., lawyer says in bail bid

    • February 11, 2022
    • Posted by: MasterAdmin
    • Category: Cryptocurrency
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    Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein are accused of a conspiracy to launder bitcoin that was stolen in the 2016 hack of Bitfinex, a cryptocurrency exchange.

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  • Couple charged with money laundering tied to 2016 $4.5B crypto hack

    • February 9, 2022
    • Posted by: MasterAdmin
    • Category: Blockchain
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    The Justice Department on Tuesday announced the arrest of a couple in New York charged with conspiring to launder stolen Bitcoin linked to the 2016 hack of a cryptocurrency exchange from which $4.5 billion went missing.

    About $3.6 billion in cryptocurrency from the 2016 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has so far been recovered in what Justice Department officials said Tuesday is the department’s largest such seizure to date.…

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