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Ilya Lichtenstein to remain in US custody in Bitfinex laundering case

( February 15, 2022, 20:00 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Accused Bitfinex money launderer Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein will stay in US custody ahead of his planned two-count criminal trial for conspiring to commit money laundering and conspiring to defraud the US. Judge Beryl Howell of the US District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in an order that Lichtenstein poses a flight risk and, if free, might work to further obstruct the investigation into the 2016 hack of Bitfinex whose proceeds Lichtenstein is accused of laundering. Filings show the dual US-Russian citizen had a cloud storage account with a file named "passport_ideas" that included links to dark web vendors appearing to offer to sell passports.See document below....

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