NEW: Two Europeans were charged with conspiracy in the Virgil Griffith North Korea crypto sanctions case. camlearnscrypto reports
Federal prosecutors on Monday announced charges against two Europeans who allegedly conspired with Virgil Griffith to help North Korea use crypto to evade sanctions.
Alejandro Cao de Benos, a Spainard, and British citizen Christopher Emms provided information about cryptocurrency to attendees of the 2019 Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference, according to aThe charges follow Ethereum developer Griffith’s sentencing to five years in prison earlier this month and come as the U.S. government is paying more attention to North Korea's brazen alleged hacks of crypto projects worldwide.
“The United States will not allow the North Korean regime to use cryptocurrency to evade global sanctions designed to thwart its goals of nuclear proliferation and regional destabilization,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew G. Olsen said in the press release.The Festival for the Decentralized World
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