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Inaresto ng Chinese Police ang 63 Tao na Inakusahan ng Paglalaba ng $1.7B Gamit ang Cryptocurrency

Ang mga ipinagbabawal na pondo ay ginawang Tether at pagkatapos ay nilabahan ng mga tao sa buong mundo.

Updated Dec 12, 2022, 5:29 p.m. Published Dec 12, 2022, 4:54 p.m.

Inaresto ng Chinese police ang 63 katao sa isang malaking kaso na naglaba ng 12 bilyong yuan (US$1.7 bilyon) para sa parehong domestic at foreign criminal group na gumagamit ng Cryptocurrency, ayon sa isang pahayag na inilabas noong katapusan ng linggo.

Sinimulan ng grupong kriminal ang operasyon nito noong Mayo 2021, kung saan ang mga pinagmumulan ng mga pondo ay nagmumula sa mga ilegal na pyramid scheme, pandaraya at pagsusugal. Pagkatapos ay na-convert ng grupo ang mga pondo sa stablecoin Tether (USDT) at pagkatapos ay nag-recruit ng mga tao mula sa buong mundo upang magbukas ng mga Crypto account at tumulong sa paglalaba ng mga pondo, ayon sa mga awtoridad ng China.

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Isang kabuuang humigit-kumulang 130 milyong yuan ($18.6 milyon) na ilegal na kita ang nakumpiska.

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Nelson Wang

Nelson edits features and opinion stories and was previously CoinDesk’s U.S. News Editor for the East Coast. He has also been an editor at Unchained and DL News, and prior to working at CoinDesk, he was the technology stocks editor and consumer stocks editor at TheStreet. He has also held editing positions at Yahoo.com and Condé Nast Portfolio’s website, and was the content director for aMedia, an Asian American media company. Nelson grew up on Long Island, New York and went to Harvard College, earning a degree in Social Studies. He holds BTC, ETH and SOL above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.