{"id":4855,"date":"2022-02-24T07:37:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/24\/is-this-the-new-face-of-organized-crime-decoding-razzlekhan-the-rapping-bitcoin-fraudster\/"},"modified":"2022-02-24T07:37:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T06:37:00","slug":"is-this-the-new-face-of-organized-crime-decoding-razzlekhan-the-rapping-bitcoin-fraudster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/24\/is-this-the-new-face-of-organized-crime-decoding-razzlekhan-the-rapping-bitcoin-fraudster\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this the new face of organized crime? Decoding Razzlekhan, the rapping bitcoin fraudster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Morgan, the wannabe Tiktok and hip-hop star, and her husband allegedly stole $4.5bn worth of cryptocurrency <\/p>\n<p>Heather Morgan is free, for now. The 31-year-old fraudster was offered bail on Valentine\u2019s Day, releasing her from incarceration while her husband, Ilya \u201cDutch\u201d Liechtenstein, remains in federal bondage.<\/p>\n<p>Morgan is at the centre of a psychedelic cryptocurrency saga, that began when the pair were arrested on suspicion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/two-arrested-alleged-conspiracy-launder-45-billion-stolen-cryptocurrency\">laundering $4.5bn worth of stolen bitcoin<\/a>. That money was originally pilfered from a Hong Kong-based crypto exchange firm called Bitfinex, and it breaks the record for the most digital currency that\u2019s ever been seized by a criminal sting operation. (The pair allegedly spent the money on NFTs, gold and a Walmart gift card.) It\u2019s the first major crime saga of the Web3 era \u2013 Blockchain noir, ripe for a Safdie Brothers film \u2013 and each twist in the storyline is more implausible than the last.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/feb\/23\/decoding-razzlekhan-rapping-bitcoin-fraudster-organized-crime\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/67565cf8e22cebf836a187462af962228377c25d\/0_34_5000_3001\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=0de5e3ec1a6649d3c6fd9294178fb7ae\" title=\"Is this the new face of organized crime? Decoding Razzlekhan, the rapping bitcoin fraudster\" \/>Heather Morgan, the wannabe Tiktok and hip-hop star, and her husband allegedly stole $4.5bn worth of cryptocurrency<br \/>\nHeather Morgan is free, for now. The 31-year-old fraudster was offered bail on Valentine\u2019s Day, releasing her from incarceration while her husband, Ilya \u201cDutch\u201d Liechtenstein, remains in federal bondage.<br \/>\nMorgan is at the centre of a psychedelic cryptocurrency saga, that began when the pair were arrested on suspicion of laundering $4.5bn worth of stolen bitcoin. That money was originally pilfered from a Hong Kong-based crypto exchange firm called Bitfinex, and it breaks the record for the most digital currency that\u2019s ever been seized by a criminal sting operation. (The pair allegedly spent the money on NFTs, gold and a Walmart gift card.) It\u2019s the first major crime saga of the Web3 era \u2013 Blockchain noir, ripe for a Safdie Brothers film \u2013 and each twist in the storyline is more implausible than the last. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Morgan, the wannabe Tiktok and hip-hop star, and her husband allegedly stole $4.5bn worth of cryptocurrency Heather Morgan is free, for now. The 31-year-old fraudster was offered bail on Valentine\u2019s Day, releasing her from incarceration while her husband, Ilya \u201cDutch\u201d Liechtenstein, remains in federal bondage. Morgan is at the centre of a psychedelic cryptocurrency &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/24\/is-this-the-new-face-of-organized-crime-decoding-razzlekhan-the-rapping-bitcoin-fraudster\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is this the new face of organized crime? Decoding Razzlekhan, the rapping bitcoin fraudster<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}