KIEV. 7 Aug. UNN. American law enforcement authorities filed an indictment against 20-year-old student from Boston (Massachusetts), a suspect in a long-term cryptocurrency fraud in especially large size – $ 5 million. This publication reports Forex Fraud, reports UNN.
The hearing will be held on August 9 this year. The suspect’s name is Joel Ortiz. He was detained by police officers in the US in July this year. The amount of bail a defendant is $ 1 billion.
Ortiz is suspected in a multi-year fraud with bitcoins by hacking the phone numbers of investors in the cryptocurrency.
Recall that about 75% of Americans think bitcoin “sveshnikovym asset”.
Along with this, the financial services Agency of Japan proposes to delete bitcoin from the list of means of payment.
Ukraine, meanwhile, continues to be defined in the regulation of cryptocurrency market from the point of view of the legislation.
Registered in the Parliament several draft laws on the legalization of digital money, and recently it was decided to combine them into a single document.
The author of one of the bills about cryptocurrency is the MP from the RPL Serhiy Rybalka (last year he was fired from the post of Chairman of the Finance Committee BP). His paper, however, experts of the Bitcoin Foundation called senseless and populist.
But according to some media, the bill Fishing (No. 7183-1) and all is “written off” the Russian officials.
Moreover, the co-author of the bill about bitcoin Fishing made a citizen’s wife Anastasia Bayborodina.
And this act, the colleagues of the radical party called at least “unethical”.