American prosecutors requested a federal approval judgment to give the performance of almost 80% of the 119,754 bitcoins stolen the piracy of the Cryptofine Bitfinex 2016 exchange.
In a judicial history on Tuesday, prosecutors said that the 94,643 bitcoins recovered through the government of the original portfolio used through the pirate, Ilya Lichtenstein, they can be paid in Bitfinex as a restitution in the type once the court has given Green light Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Satoshi Vision and Bitcoin Gold generated several hard forks according to piracy will also be sent to Bitfinex.
Last November, Lichtenstein sentenced five years in criminal after pleading for the fault of the conspiracy to dedicate cash washing in 2023. His wife, Heather Morgan, a major known for his rap racor Lichtenstein to Whiten to the Hack part provides. The two agreed to renounce the stolen cryptocurrency as a component of their defense agreements.
The return of the remaining 25,000 bitcoins will be more complicated.
In their archive, prosecutors said that because Lichtenstein and Morgan had tried They shiver through the Darknet and Darknet and Darknet and Darknet markets and uncomplicated mixers and glas Piracy and, therefore, will have to be returned through a confiscation of procedure accessories.
In the Coendesk Press team, Cheyenne focuses on the regulation and crime of cryptography. Cheyenne is from Houston, Texas. He studied Political Science at the University of Tulane in Louisiana. In December 2021, he graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism in Cuny, where he went to industrial and economic relations. She has no participation in cryptography.
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