THELOGICALINDIAN - Italian badge accused a man who ran a cryptocurrency barter of actuality amenable for a alternation of hacks that acquired millions in losses as allotment of an declared massive artifice scheme
Italian Authorities Accuse Bitgrail Owner of Faking Hacks That Led Exchange’s Bankruptcy
According to Reuters, the 34-year-old from Florence accepted by his brand F.F. and buyer of Bitgrail, a crypto aggregation that was declared broke in 2019, is doubtable of accepting apish a cyberattack that defrauded over 230,000 bodies which captivated nano coin, a crypto launched in 2015.
The alternation of declared affected hacks reportedly caused losses of 120 actor euros ($146 million), and the alone faces accuse of computer fraud, counterfeit bankruptcy, and money laundering. In a statement, Italian authorities said that such a case could be categorized as the “biggest cyber-financial advance in Italy and one of the world’s biggest.”
The address capacity that F.F. himself ability out to the badge in February 2024 to address the drudge and the accident of a “huge” bulk of nano coin, but Ivano Gabrielli, administrator of the civic centermost for cyber crimes (CNAIPIC), started to doubtable that the 34-year-old man was involved.
The authorities’ account adds:
Did F.F. Participate Actively in the Hacks?
However, Gabrielli declared that it was not yet bright whether F.F. alternate actively in the annexation “or if he artlessly absitively not to access aegis measures afterwards advertent it,” as the badge believed it would accept been accessible to anticipate the annexation in a aboriginal instance.
Back on January 21, 2019, F.F. was sentenced by the Italian Bankruptcy Court to acknowledgment as abundant of the assets to his barter as possible. The Italian authorities additionally managed to appropriate over $1 actor in claimed assets, including his car.
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