{"id":165631,"date":"2021-01-29T04:05:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-29T01:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ethereum-dev-must-face-jury-for-allegedly-helping-north-korea-evade-sanctions\/"},"modified":"2021-01-29T04:05:08","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T01:05:08","slug":"ethereum-dev-must-face-jury-for-allegedly-helping-north-korea-evade-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ethereum-dev-must-face-jury-for-allegedly-helping-north-korea-evade-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ethereum dev must face jury for allegedly helping North Korea evade sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Ethereum dev must face jury for allegedly helping North Korea evade sanctions<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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                Virgil Griffith, a crypto developer accused of helping North Korea evade sanctions through speaking at a Pyongyang crypto conference in 2019, must now face a jury.\n                <p>A New York federal judge has denied an Ethereum developer\u2019s motion to dismiss criminal charges over allegations he assisted the North Korean regime to bypass U.S. sanctions.\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The developer and former-hacker,<\/a> Virgil Griffith, is accused<\/a> of helping North Korea evade economic sanctions by delivering a speech during a Pyongyang blockchain conference in April 2019.<\/p>\n
Law360 reported <\/a>that in his motion, Griffith had claimed the speech he delivered at the Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference was protected by his First Amendment right to free speech.<\/p>\n
Griffith also requested a bill of particulars, claiming he was unable to prepare for the hearing as the four-page indictment against him was \u201cshort and vague,\u201d and lacked specific detail outlining his criminal conduct. However, the judge also rejected this request, finding that \u201cadequate notice of the charges against Griffith\u201d had been provided.<\/p>\n
The judge cited text messages<\/a> Griffith allegedly sent to colleagues during the lead up to the conference, stating: <\/p>\n
\u201cWe’d love to make an Ethereum trip<\/a> to the DPRK and set up an Ethereum node [\u2026] It’ll help them circumvent the current sanctions on them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Another message app<\/a>arently noted that while Griffith did not know exactly what the purpose of the North Korean administration\u2019s interest in crypto assets was, he speculated it was \u201cprobably avoiding sanctions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Griffith\u2019s fate must now be determined by a jury.<\/p>\n
In January 2019, the U.S. state department denied Griffith\u2019s request to travel to the North Korean capital to discuss \u201cthe applications of blockchain technology<\/a> to business and anti-corruption.\u201d <\/p>\n
Despite the rejection, Griffith successfully sought approval from the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea\u2019s UN Mission in Manhattan, and was issued a visa one month later. <\/p>\n
The Department of Justice announced Griffith\u2019s arrest on Nov. 29, 2019, with U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman alleging that Griffith \u201cprovided highly technical information to North Korea, knowing that this information could be used to help North Korea launder money and evade sanctions.\u201d <\/p>\n
A January 2020 indictment charged Griffith with conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act by seeking to provide \u201cservices\u201d to North Korea. <\/p>\n
While Griffith has claimed his speech was protected by the act\u2019s \u201cinformation exemption\u201d \u2014 characterizing the presentation as delivering \u201cinformation that one could readily learn from a Google search\u201d \u2014 the prosecution claims the speech could empower Kim Jong Un\u2019s administration to evade sanctions and launder money.<\/p>\n
The judge also noted that the fact Griffith did not receive financial remuneration for the speech may not impact the jury\u2019s ruling, stating:<\/p>\n
\u201cEven if Griffith’s presentation at the conference, taken in isolation, did not qualify as the provision of services, or was exempt under the information exception, evidence at trial may be sufficient to demonstrate his guilt in conspiring to provide services.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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“#Ethereum dev must face jury for allegedly helping North Korea evade sanctions” Virgil Griffith, a crypto developer accused of helping North Korea evade sanctions through speaking at a Pyongyang crypto conference in 2019, must now face a jury. <p>A New York federal judge has denied an Ethereum developer\u2019s motion to dismiss criminal charges over allegations…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":165632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDEvNDZmYzhhZTktNDg2Mi00NmY5LTllYzItY2VlY2MzZjYyOTMzLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}