The New York couple charged in a billion-dollar crypto heist had been quietly setting up bank accounts in Russia and had traveled to Ukraine in order to obtain fake IDs, authorities say.
The hipster New York couple charged in one of the world’s biggest crypto-currency thefts had been quietly setting up bank accounts in Russia and had traveled to Ukraine in order to obtain false identity documents, authorities said.
Prosecutors have said they believe the couple still have control over crypto accounts containing $328 million and had experience creating false identities and procuring false identity papers through the dark web in order to set up bank accounts under fake names. In the new court filing, prosecutors detailed a 2019 trip Lichtenstein and Morgan had made to Ukraine during which they appeared to have received multiple packages containing false Ukrainian identity documents, bank cards and SIM cards for their mobile phones.
Lichtenstein is a dual U.S.-Russian citizen and had renewed his Russian passport in 2019, prosecutors said. Russia doesn’t extradite its own citizens and Morgan would be eligible for Russian citizenship due to her marriage to Lichtenstein, prosecutors said. The filing also said that Lichtenstein had left Russia with his family at the age of 6 to flee religious persecution and that the family had lived in the suburbs of Chicago ever since.
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