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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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DOJ arrests New York couple and seizes $3.6 billion in bitcoin related to 2016 hack
- February 9, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Altcoins
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were arrested Tuesday in Manhattan on money laundering and conspiracy charges.
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Married NYC couple charged with laundering billions in stolen crypto
- February 9, 2022
- Posted by: MasterAdmin
- Category: Investments
It’s one for the history books.
The Department of Justice announced Tuesday morning the arrest of a married New York City couple allegedly caught trying to launder cryptocurrency stolen during the notorious 2016 hack of the Bitfinex exchange. The proceeds from that boosted crypto — specifically, 119,754 bitcoin — is presently valued at around $4.5 billion, and large chunks of it were on the move as recently as earlier this month.…
