简而言之 保加利亚公民 Rossen Iossifov 因洗钱近 500 万美元而被判入狱 111 个月，他被指控密谋转移法院下令没收的 29 万美元加密货币。 检察官称，他于 2024 年 1 月通过多个交易所和混合服务进行了转账，当时他已经在联邦监狱中。 如果新指控被判有罪，Iossifov 将面临最高 25 年的监禁。 一名保加利亚男子已经因美国起诉的一起规模较大的加密货币洗钱案件正在服刑，他被指控在联邦监狱内实施另一项计划，据称转移了法院命令他没收的 29 万美元加密货币。 美国司法部在一份声明中表示，53 岁的罗森·约西福夫 (Rossen Iossifov) 本周在肯塔基州东区首次出庭，罪名是转移财产以防止扣押、协助和教唆以及共谋洗钱。检察官指控，2024 年 1 月，他密谋通过多家交易所和混合服务机构提取并转移被没收的加密货币，这些交易所和混合服务机构汇集资金来隐藏其踪迹，以使这些资金远离政府的掌控。
司法部刑事司助理总检察长 A. 泰森·杜瓦 (A. Tysen Duva) 表示，在早期案件中“藐视合法输入的命令”的被告将因妨碍司法公正而受到指控。调查这两起案件的美国特勤局称，所谓的转移是对法院和受害者的“直接挑战”。 RG 硬币案例 Iossifov 拥有并经营 RG Coins，这是一家总部位于保加利亚索非亚的加密货币交易所，并于 2021 年因参与亚历山大在线拍卖欺诈网络而被判犯有敲诈勒索和共谋洗钱罪。该罗马尼亚团伙在 eBay 和 Craigslist 等网站上发布了虚假的汽车和其他高价值商品清单，从至少 900 名美国受害者那里收取了款项，并将收益转移给海外洗钱者，Iossifov 在链条末端将加密货币转换为现金。 审判证据显示，他在不到三年的时间内洗掉了近 500 万美元的加密货币。他被勒令支付超过 260 万美元的赔偿金，并没收目前成为新案件核心的加密货币，在发生所谓的转移时，他正在服刑 111 个月。
如果新指控成立，Iossifov 在目前刑期的基础上将面临最高 25 年的监禁。负责处理起诉的司法部计算机犯罪部门表示，自 2020 年以来，已对 180 多名网络和知识产权犯罪分子定罪，并下令向受害者返还超过 3.5 亿美元。 每日简报时事通讯 每天从当前的热门新闻报道以及原创专题、播客、视频等开始。
In brief
Rossen Iossifov, a Bulgarian national serving 111 months for laundering nearly $5 million, has been charged with conspiring to move $290,000 in cryptocurrency that a court had ordered forfeited.
Prosecutors say he ran the transfers through multiple exchanges and mixing services in January 2024, while already in federal prison.
Should he be found guilty of the new charges, Iossifov faces up to 25 years in prison.
A Bulgarian man already serving time for one of the larger crypto laundering cases prosecuted in the U.S. has been charged with pulling off another scheme from inside federal prison, allegedly moving $290,000 in cryptocurrency that a court had ordered him to forfeit.
Rossen Iossifov, 53, made his first court appearance in the Eastern District of Kentucky this week on charges of removing property to prevent seizure, aiding and abetting, and conspiracy to commit money laundering, the Department of Justice said in a statement. Prosecutors allege that in January 2024 he conspired to withdraw and transfer the forfeited crypto through several exchanges and mixing services, which pool funds to hide their trail, to keep the money out of the government's reach.
Defendants who "flout lawfully entered orders" from earlier cases will be charged for that obstruction, said Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department's Criminal Division. The U.S. Secret Service, which investigated both cases, called the alleged transfers a “direct challenge” to the courts and to his victims.
The RG Coins case
Iossifov owned and ran RG Coins, a cryptocurrency exchange based in Sofia, Bulgaria, and was convicted in 2021 of racketeering and money-laundering conspiracies for his role in the Alexandria Online Auction Fraud network. The Romanian ring posted fake listings for cars and other high-value goods on sites like eBay and Craigslist, collected payments from at least 900 American victims, and funneled the proceeds to overseas launderers, with Iossifov converting the crypto to cash at the end of the chain.
Trial evidence showed he laundered nearly $5 million in cryptocurrency in under three years. He was ordered to pay more than $2.6 million in restitution and to forfeit the crypto now at the center of the new case, and was serving a 111-month term when the alleged transfers took place.
If convicted on the new charges, Iossifov faces up to 25 years in prison on top of his current sentence. The Justice Department's computer crime section, which handled the prosecution, says it has secured convictions of more than 180 cyber and intellectual-property criminals since 2020 and court orders returning over $350 million to victims.
