DOJ Charges Two Russian Hackers With Scheme To Launder 647,000 BTC

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged two Russian nationals with “conspiring to launder approximately 647,000 bitcoins” they acquired from hacking the now-defunct Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt Gox, according to a statement. In the statement, the DOJ alleges that Alexey Bilyuchenko and Aleksandr Verner hacked Mt.