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DOJ and IRS’ Analysis of Crypto Records and Work with Private Experts and International Partners Leads to Arrest Friday, April 30, 2021
US law enforcement continues to make no secret of their efforts to work closely with experts and overseas partners to prosecute those involved in virtual currency transactions who attempt to rely on its purported anonymity to commit financial crimes. Tuesday’s arrest of Roman Sterlingov, a dual citizen of Russia and Sweden and alleged operator of Bitcoin Fog, in Los Angeles is a clear case that these efforts are paying dividends. In a criminal complaint filed by the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, Sterlingov is accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin. According to a statement of facts accompanying the complaint filed in the District of Columbia, Sterlingov was allegedly running “an illicit bitcoin money transmitting and money laundering service.” (Case 1:21-mj-0
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Iasi mayor Mihai Chirica says he feels in danger and defenseless, making a public appeal so that justice in the file he is prosecuted is not done in the party offices . It is one of the hardest moments of this city and even in my political life. After almost 6 years as mayor I have reached a situation where I feel defenseless. For six years I have tried to make for this city what I would have done for myself. To be an open city, to be a respected city, a city in which every citizen can be proud, Chirica wrote in a post on Facebook.
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Mayor Mihai Chirica announced on Wednesday that he will self-suspend from all political positions which he holds within the northeastern Iasi branch of the National Liberal Party (PNL), because he does not wish for the accusations that are being brought to him to affect the image of the PNL. I have peace of mind, in front of the citizens of Iasi and God, that I am innocent and I have the belief that I will prove this as quickly as possible, mayor Mihai Chirica declared, through a press release.
He specifies that there is no truth to any of the criminal accusations brought to him and says that he is the target of political attacks and of other nature, which won t stop .
Romanian gangster who trafficked woman to Scotland in £500k prostitution ring jailed in home country
John Jeffay
Updated: 18 Apr 2021, 13:01
A ROMANIAN gangster who trafficked women to Scotland to work in a £500,000-a-year prostitution ring has been jailed for more than four years in his home country.
Vasile Radu was the ringleader of an international trafficking operation moving victims from poverty blackspots in the Prahova region of the country to flats in the east end of Glasgow.
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Radu was caged for four-and-a-half yearsCredit: Alamy
The gang thought they could earn more money here than in their homeland and that they could evade justice by flitting between different countries.