Federal authorities arrested a couple early Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to launder roughly $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of a digital asset exchange, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced.
Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan allegedly concocted an elaborate money-laundering scheme using multiple fake identities and bitcoin addresses to hide the stolen money, according to court documents filed by Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent Christopher Janczewski, who investigated the case. The funds were from a 2016 hack of virtual currency exchange Bitfinex, based in Hong Kong.
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