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HashFlare co-founder pleads guilty to defrauding more than $550 million

The co-founders of crypto mining service HashFlare, Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin, have pleaded guilty in the United States to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. As part of the plea agreement, they agreed to give up all digital assets frozen by the United States. HashFlare, which they ran, defrauded users of more than $550 million between 2015 and 2019 and raised $25 million from investors in 2017 through Polybius, a fake digital bank that was never established. The two were arrested in Estoni...

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2025-02-12 20:34:21
HashFlare联合创始人认罪,诈骗金额超过5.5亿美元

加密挖矿服务 HashFlare 联合创始人 Sergei Potapenko 和 Ivan Turogin 在美认罪,承认共谋实施电信欺诈。作为认罪协议的一部分,他们同意放弃美方冻结的所有数字资产。两人运营的 HashFlare 于 2015-2019 年间欺诈用户超 5.5 亿美元,并在 2017 年通过一家从未成立的虚假数字银行 Polybius 项目向投资者筹集 2500 万美元。 两人 2022 年在爱沙尼亚被捕,2024 年 5 月引渡至美国,原面...

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2025-02-12 20:34:21