NEW: Justice Department announces arrests of New York couple charged with conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in cryptocurrency stolen during the 2016 hack of Bitfinex—marking the 'largest ever' financial seizure by the department.
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Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife Heather Morgan, 31, were arrested Tuesday morning in Manhattan and will make their initial appearances in court Tuesday afternoon, the DOJ said. The hacker, not identified in the criminal complaint, then allegedly sent the bitcoin proceeds to a digital wallet under Lichtenstein's control and for the last five years, prosecutors allege, he had laundered roughly 25,000 of the stolen bitcoins with some of the funds being directed to accounts under his and his wife's control.The Bitfinex logo, a cryptocurrency exchange company, is displayed on a smartphone and computer screen, Oct. 31, 2021.
According to DOJ, the couple"employed numerous sophisticated laundering techniques," like setting up online accounts with fake identities, setting up programs that could make numerous auto-transactions in short periods of time, and depositing funds on darknet markets in order to cover up where the transactions began and where the money was sent.An American flag flies outside the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., March 22, 2019.
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