US married couple arrested for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5bn in bitcoin

Husband and wife, a rapper on TikTok, are accused in the US’s biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft case

The US justice department has announced the unraveling of its biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft case, seizing a record-shattering $3.6bn in bitcoin tied to the 2016 hack of digital currency exchange Bitfinex.

A husband-and-wife team of alleged money launderers was arrested in Manhattan on Tuesday morning, the department said.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/08/us-married-couple-arrested-allegedly-conspiring-launder-45bn-bitcoin