Husband and Wife Accused of Laundering Billions of Dollars in Bitcoin Involved in Hacking Bitfinex As of 2016, the process of negotiating a confession with authorities in the United States has been completed.
According to memorandum filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on July 21, Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan are scheduled to appear for hearing and trial on August 3 as part of a plea bargaining process with prosecutors. The pair were charged with conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to defraud the United States. And it is expected that digital assets related to this case will be confiscated.
Following the Bitfinex hack in August 2016, in which approximately 119,754 BTC was stolen, Lichtenstein and Morgan were accused of laundering more than 94,643 BTC “in small and complex transactions across multiple accounts and platforms.”
Authorities arrested the two in New York in February 2022 and seized around $54 million worth of BTC at the time of the hack. But it was worth a whopping $3.6 billion at the time of publication. It was the largest seizure by the United States Department of Justice.
refer : cointelegraph
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