WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US has indicted two Russian nationals in hacking the collapse of cryptocurrency alternate Mt. Gox and working illicit cryptocurrency alternate BTC-e, the Division of Justice introduced on Friday.
The division stated in an announcement that Alexey Bilyuchenko, 43, and Aleksandr Verner, 29, had been charged with conspiring to launder roughly 647,000 bitcoins from their hack of Mt. Gox, which collapsed in 2014. after dropping half a billion {dollars} from the cryptocurrency.
Bilyuchenko was additionally charged with conspiring with one other individual to mine BTC-e from 2011 to 2017, the Justice Ministry added.
