{"id":673717,"date":"2025-06-06T04:25:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/us-wants-7-7m-in-crypto-laundered-in-north-korea-it-worker-plot\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T04:25:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T01:25:13","slug":"us-wants-7-7m-in-crypto-laundered-in-north-korea-it-worker-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/us-wants-7-7m-in-crypto-laundered-in-north-korea-it-worker-plot\/","title":{"rendered":"US wants $7.7M in crypto laundered in North Korea IT worker plot"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Justice Department has filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize crypto and NFTs allegedly tied to laundering efforts by North Korea.<\/p>\n

The US Department of Justice has moved to seize $7.74 million in crypto allegedly earned by North Korean IT workers using fake identities and working at blockchain firms as remote contractors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The funds were initially frozen in April 2023 as part of an indictment against Sim Hyon Sop, a China-based banker allegedly helping North Korean IT workers launder money, the DOJ said<\/a> in a June 5 statement.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department is looking to seize multiple cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins and Bitcoin (BTC) in varying amounts, along with non-fungible tokens and Ethereum Name Service domains that are held in multiple self-custody wallets and Binance accounts, according to its civil forfeiture complaint filed<\/a> June 5 in a Washington, DC federal court.<\/p>\n

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The Justice Department has filed a civil forfeiture complaint to seize crypto and NFTs allegedly tied to laundering efforts by North Korea. The US Department of Justice has moved to seize $7.74 million in crypto allegedly earned by North Korean IT workers using fake identities and working at blockchain firms as remote contractors.\u00a0\u00a0 The funds…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/format=auto,onerror=redirect,quality=90,width=1200\/https:\/\/s3.cointelegraph.com\/uploads\/2025-06\/01974259-358a-7bb6-81bb-6d257c8c4c76","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74862,74894,74863,71433,27926,70934,4965,67874],"class_list":["post-673717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bitcoin","tag-blockchain","tag-cryptocurrencies","tag-court","tag-north-korea","tag-regulation","tag-technology","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673717","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=673717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}