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US Couple Reveals Shocking Tale of Hiding Hacked Crypto from Bitfinex According to a news article by CyberNews, a husband-and-wife duo pleaded guilty in an elaborate scheme to launder stolen money from a 2016 crypto hack involving Bitfinex. The couple admitted to laundering money stolen in the hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex through an elaborate […]
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US Couple Reveals Shocking Tale of Hiding Hacked Crypto from Bitfinex
According to a news article by CyberNews, a husband-and-wife duo pleaded guilty in an elaborate scheme to launder stolen money from a 2016 crypto hack involving Bitfinex. The couple admitted to laundering money stolen in the hack of cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex through an elaborate scheme involving burying gold coins and burning documents in a trash can in Kazakhstan. Moscow-born US citizen Ilya Lichtenstein admitted to hacking the exchange and enlisting his wife, an online rapper named Heather Morgan who has gone by the alias “Razzlekhan,” to help conceal some 119,754 stolen bitcoin. The tokens were worth $71 million at the time of the hack but had appreciated to more than $4.5 billion at the time of their February 22 arrests in New York. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said at the time the $3.6 billion in assets recovered was the biggest financial seizure in U.S. Department of Justice history. The DOJ has since recovered $475 million more, and the couple in court on Thursday agreed to jointly forfeit $72 million
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Rhiannon Morgan, known as the “Crypto Couple,” are expected to plead guilty in the bitcoin hack money laundering case. They are accused of trying to launder bitcoin stolen in the 2016 hack of Bitfinex.
In a hearing before U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, Moscow-born U.S. citizen Ilya Lichtenstein admitted to hacking the exchange and enlisting his wife, an online rapper named Heather Morgan who has gone by the alias “Razzlekhan,” to help conceal some 119,754 stolen bitcoin.
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Rhiannon Morgan had access to the funds from the heist roughly six months after it was stolen from the Hong Kong-based exchange. They used crypto wallets and Walmart gift cards to launder the stolen Bitfinex cash1. Lichtenstein also admitted that he had converted some of the stolen crypto to gold coins and that Morgan had buried the gold. They have now informed law enforcement of where that loot was stashed.
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