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Russian Nationals Charged With Hacking And Operating Crypto Exchanges Mt. Cox and BTC-e.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has revealed charges linked to the collapsed crypto exchanges Mt. Gox and BTC-e. Two Russian nationals, Alexey Bilyuchenko (43) and Aleksandr Verner (29), are accused of conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins obtained through a Mt. Gox hack. Bilyuchenko is additionally charged with conspiring with Alexander Vinnik to run the laundromat BTC-e between 2011 and 2017.