[HIGHLIGHTS] US Department of Justice: Two Russians Charged in Case of Hacking Crypto Exchange Mt. Gox

Alexei Bilyuchenko and Alexander Werner are accused of conspiring to launder about 647,000 bitcoins obtained from the Mt. Gox hack in 2011.

In May, it was reported that the US authorities charged a Russian citizen who is suspected of illegal money transfers worth more than $ 150 million. Alexander Vinnik was arrested in Greece in the summer of 2017 at the request of the United States. Two years later, he was extradited to Paris, where in December 2020 he was found guilty and sentenced to five years in prison.