Lub tsev hais plaub hauv Tebchaws Meskas tau them ob tus neeg nyob sab Europe hauv kev sib txuas nrog lub rooj sib tham blockchain thiab cryptocurrency hauv North Kauslim uas tau ua txhaum US kev nplua rov qab rau xyoo 2019.
Raws li US Department of Justice, lub tsev hais plaub cov ntaub ntawv allege hais tias Alejandro Cao De Benos, ib tug pej xeem ntawm Spain, thiab Christopher Emms, ib tug pej xeem ntawm lub tebchaws United Kingdom, tau koom ua txhaum US kev nplua rau North Kauslim thaum lawv koom ua ke npaj thiab tsim lub 2019 Pyongyang Blockchain thiab Cryptocurrency Conference.
Cov khub tau ua haujlwm nrog yav dhau los Ethereum tus tsim Virgil Griffith los qhia txog yuav ua li cas DPRK tuaj yeem siv blockchain thiab thev naus laus zis cryptocurrency mus ntxhua khaub ncaws thiab zam kev rau txim. Tom qab ntawd, peb tau txuas ntxiv muab cov kev pabcuam cryptocurrency thiab blockchain ntxiv rau lub tebchaws raug nplua los ntawm kev nrhiav los pab lawv tsim cov txheej txheem cryptocurrency thiab khoom siv.
Griffith tau paub zoo nyob rau hauv qhov chaw cryptocurrency rau nws txoj haujlwm dav dav ntawm Ethereum cryptocurrency platform thaum nws xyoo ntxov. Nws raug ntes los ntawm Tsoom Fwv Teb Chaws Saib Xyuas Kev Tshawb Fawb (FBI) thaum lub Kaum Ib Hlis 2019 rau nws txoj kev sib txuas nrog lub rooj sib tham thiab tau thov txim rau lub Cuaj Hlis xyoo tas los rau kev ua txhaum cai International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA)
Lub Plaub Hlis 12, nws raug txim rau 63 lub hlis hauv tsev lojcuj thiab raug nplua $ 100,000.
Qhov kev foob tseem liam tias Cao De Benos thiab Emms tau txais Griffith los hais lus ntawm DPRK lub rooj sib tham thiab npaj nws mus rau DPRK xyoo 2019 rau lub hom phiaj no. Nws kuj tau liam tias Cao De Benos koom tes nrog tsoomfwv DPRK rau Griffith txoj kev koom tes hauv lub rooj sib tham.
Cov khub no tau raug foob nrog ib qho ntawm kev koom tes ua txhaum US kev nplua hauv kev ua txhaum cai ntawm IEEPA, uas raug nplua ntau tshaj 20 xyoo hauv tsev lojcuj.
Hauv tsab ntawv tshaj tawm uas tau tshaj tawm los ntawm US Department of Justice, FBI tau tshaj tawm cov lus ceeb toom tsis txaus ntseeg rau txhua tus neeg lossis cov tuam txhab xav txog kev hla US kev nplua rau tsoomfwv txawv tebchaws.
Tus pab cuam tus thawj coj Bradley S. Benavides ntawm FBI's Counterintelligence Division tau hais tias:
"Cov neeg xav txog kev khiav tawm ntawm Teb Chaws Asmeskas kev rau txim rau tsoomfwv txawv teb chaws yuav tsum paub FBI thiab nws cov neeg koom tes yuav ua phem rau cov xwm txheej no."
Qhov kev foob los ntawm lub sijhawm txaus siab tom qab US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) tsis ntev los no tau tshaj tawm tias nws yuav tsom mus rau cov koom haum thiab cov tib neeg koom nrog kev sim zam kev rau txim los ntawm Tebchaws Meskas thiab nws cov koom tes thoob ntiaj teb rau Russia.
Lub lim tiam dhau los, US Treasury Department tau tshaj tawm nws tau hu ua Russia-based crypto mining cov kev pabcuam BitRiver AG thiab ntau lub tuam txhab pabcuam raws li cov tuam txhab pabcuam kev khiav tawm ntawm kev rau txim.
"Tebchaws Asmeskas tau cog lus kom ntseeg tau tias tsis muaj khoom vaj khoom tsev, txawm tias nyuaj npaum li cas, dhau los ua lub luag haujlwm rau Putin tsoomfwv los cuam tshuam qhov cuam tshuam ntawm kev rau txim."
Hnub Friday, OFAC tshaj tawm tias nws muaj tau txiav txim siab peb qhov chaw nyob Ethereum liam tias txuas nrog North Kauslim txuas tub sab nyiag ntau dua $ 600 lab hauv crypto los ntawm nonfungible token (NFT) game Axie Infinity's Ronin sidechain hauv lub Peb Hlis.
Tau qhov twg los: https://cointelegraph.com/news/two-more-charged-with-teaching-north-koreans-to-evade-us-sanctions-with-crypto