Stolen Bitcoin, fake personas and a trip to Ukraine: Inside the case against crypto heist couple Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein - ABC News

In a case prosecutors describe as "pulled from the pages of a spy novel", a young couple stands accused of profiting from a brazen cryptocurrency heist and attempting to launder stolen Bitcoin worth billions of dollars.

In January 2021, the US Department of Justice was closing in on its biggest financial bust ever: the seizure of more than $US3.6 billion ($4.9 billion) in cryptocurrency. Almost 120,000 bitcoins had… [+11138 chars]

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