tuesday

  • 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
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    Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were arrested Tuesday in Manhattan on money laundering and conspiracy charges.

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