Husband and wife have been accused of laundering billions of rupees worth of bitcoin. The probe team has seized over 27,000 crore bitcoins. The couple is a resident of Manhattan, USA. Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and Heather Morgan, 31, were arrested earlier this month. Both are accused of illegally using Bitcoin as their hard earned money.
In fact, in 2016, Bitfinex Currency Exchange was hacked and crypto worth billions of rupees were stolen.
Investigators say this is a 6-year-old case in which cryptocurrency went missing. The investigation revealed that the transaction was made from the IP address of the cloud service provider in New York. The investigation team later took its trail to Ilya.
The couple is accused of using a number of technologies to legalize Bitcoin. For this he created many fake IDs and fake accounts.
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