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The District Court for the Southern District of New York has released Russian-born Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan on bail of $8 million. The couple are accused of laundering $4.5 billion stolen during a cyberattack on the Bitfinex cryptocurrency exchange in 2016,
The arrest of a married couple involved in the largest cryptocurrency theft in history became known the day before, according to the New York Times.
The spouses are believed to have used a variety of methods to launder the cryptocurrency, including creating fictitious identities, depositing funds into accounts of cryptocurrency exchanges and darknet markets and then withdrawing them, converting bitcoins into other forms of virtual currency, and using software to automate transactions that allow for a variety of transactions. operations in a short period of time
About Ilya Lichtenstein, who lives on Wall Street in Kew York, it is known that he is a co-founder of an Internet marketing firm and has citizenship of two countries – the Russian Federation and the United States. His wife Heather Morgan is a journalist and rapper who calls herself the “Wall Street crocodile” in one of her songs.
Source: Rosbalt
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