2023-07-23 13:36:09
Already at the beginning of 2022, a couple was accused of being behind the laundering of a total of 119,754 bitcoins stolen from the Bitfinex crypto exchange. The arrested persons were 34-year-old Ilja Liechtenstein, otherwise known as “Holland” and his wife, 31-year-old Heather Morgan. The US Department of Justice also seized $3.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency during the investigation into the hacker attack. In February 2022, a judge released Morgan on bail, but Liechtenstein did not allow it. Regarding Morgan, the prosecutor’s office considered that the charges were not strong enough, and he also had health problems. Still don’t know who stole from Bitfinex The case hasn’t made much progress lately, but not so long ago information leaked that the couple had reached a plea deal with prosecutors. In any case, it is not known to this day who is behind the hacking of Bitfinex, in any case, the couple had something to do with the movement of the money, why else would the cryptocurrency have entered the crypto wallet of Liechtenstein. Morgan’s music videos also gave the case a rather serious, funny tone. This year, he also got a new job in the tech sector. It is not known how much time the couple will have to serve as part of the deal, but according to last year’s charges, they might receive up to 25 years. They will appear in front of the judge in Washington on August 3rd to officially reach an agreement on the deal. The additional 25,000 bitcoins obtained in addition to the 94,000 bitcoins might not be seized, the amount has disappeared neatly through various wallets and dark web marketplaces over the past five years. We first heard regarding a possible plea deal back in March 2022, when prosecutors announced they were in talks with Morgan’s lawyers regarding a possible settlement. Incidentally, Liechtenstein is a dual American-Russian citizen. He renewed his Russian passport in 2019 and traveled to Ukraine in the same year. He is also said to have carried out various online activities related to money laundering there.
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