US Prosecutors Unseal New Charges Against Bitcoin Exchange Operator
A new indictment has been filed against Anthony Murgio, the former operator of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx, months after charges were first submitted by the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York. Court documents obtained by CoinDesk detail seven charges against Murgio, who was arrested in July alongside co-operator Yuri Lebedev and charged with the unlawful operation of a money transmission business as well as money laundering. Murgio later posted $100,000 bail. As in the original indictment, Murgio is accused of operating a vast conspiracy for the unlawful operation of....
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The former operator of bitcoin exchange Coin.mx, Anthony Murgio, has plead not guilty to money laundering. According to Bloomberg, Murgio also plead not guilty to operating the bitcoin exchange, wire fraud and conspiracy. As previously reported by CoinDesk, Murgio was charged with one count of money laundering and one count of willful failure to submit a suspicious activity report. He was arrested alongside Yuri Lebedev in July and accused of using Coin.mx as a money channel for a series of online criminal enterprises. Both him and Lebedev were charged with one count of conspiracy to....
NEW YORK — The CEO of the Bitcoin exchange Coin.mx has plead not guilty to charges of conspiracy and money laundering. Anthony Murgio appeared in federal court on Tuesday denying the accusations that he and his partner Yuri Lebedev used the company in a fraudulent way. Federal prosecutors believe they used the exchange to move large amounts of illicit....