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The United States announced that it had recovered $3.6 billion in bitcoins stolen in 2016, a record amount for a judicial seizure. But, in addition to these astronomical amounts, the profile of the arrested couple piques the curiosity of Internet users and the media.
We expected everything. But not necessarily that. A jackpot of 94,000 bitcoins stolen in 2016 was recovered on Tuesday during a judicial seizure in the United States. If we do the conversion, today, the loot represents more than 4 billion dollars, which is a record amount. So inevitably, when the US Department of Justice announced in a press release that it had arrested a couple of Americans in New York in this case, one question caused all keyboards to overheat: but who are these people?
Answer: Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan. Also called “Dutch” and “Razzlekhan”. Or the self-proclaimed Wall Street Crocodile. The duo, aged 34 and 31 respectively, have many nicknames and since the start of the affair, they have won a new one: the “Bonnie and Clyde of bitcoin”. It didn’t take much research for Internet users and journalists to discover, behind these nicknames and via social networks, a married couple that was eccentric to say the least. He is described as an entrepreneur “respected”. She is both a journalist“serial entrepreneur”, influencer and… rapper.
Golden jacket, movements…