12 other people were charged with their involvement in a wave of Crypto crimes of $ 263 million which stole 4,100 Bitcoin to a creditor from Genesis last August, as well as a series of packaging and money laundering.
The 12 new names, included in a replaced indictment, add to the accusations initially brought against the main defendant of the case, Malone Lam, on September 19, 2024, noted the Ministry of Justice in a press release of May 15.
Jeandiel Serrano was appointed defendant in the initial indictment but was not included in the replacement.
The Doj said that several accused had been arrested, while two others live in Dubai.
Many suspects, with alias like “Goth Ferrrari” and “the accountant”, come from California, mainly aged 18 to 22.
The group would have started to operate in October 2023, evolving of friends while playing online games as the doj describes as participating in a “Cyber-compatible racket conspiracy”.
Hacking, robbing and whitening
The DoJ said that the members of the group had been responsible for everything, hacking databases, cold crypto holders to carry out social engineering attacks in burglary houses to steal cryptographic material portfolios.
Others were involved in the whitening of stolen products, which, according to the MJ, amounted to $ 263 million.
More than $ 230 million resulted from a single body on August 18, 2024, when LAM fraudulently obtained more than 4,100 bitcoin (BTC) from a victim.
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The DoJ said that LAM also hacked the iCloud account of another victim to monitor their movements, while the accused Marlon Ferro would occur in their house to steal cryptographic equipment portfolios.
Virtual private networks, protocols and exchanges of cryptographic mixers using “coins of coins” were used to make the retirement of illicit activity more difficult, the DOJ said. A coat chain is a silver whitening tactic where the crypto is transferred through a series of wallets, with small amounts of “peeled” backgrounds at each step.
They were charged with Rico (influenced and corrupt racketeering organizations) as well as offenses involving thread fraud and money laundering.
Disappeared in 60 seconds
The members of the Crypto flight ring would have used the product to pay the nightclub services – costing up to $ 500,000 per night – 28 exotic cars as expensive as $ 3.8 million, in addition to luxury handbags, watches and clothing.
The houses and jets were even rented with false identity documents to finance their sumptuous lifestyles, noted the Doj.
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