The CFO of a prominent multinational media company, Weidong Guan, a/k/a Bill Guan, has been charged with participating in an elaborate scheme to launder approximately $67 million in illicit funds. Guan, who served as CFO for The Epoch Times headquartered in New York City, was arrested recently and will appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge. The case has been assigned to U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero.
In another crypto crime case that underscores the vulnerabilities of decentralized crypto exchanges, a former security engineer, Shakeeb Ahmed, was sentenced to three years in prison for orchestrating hacks that resulted in the theft of over $12 million in cryptocurrency. U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero handed down the sentence, which also included three years of supervised release and a comprehensive forfeiture and restitution order.