ICYMI: Two Europeans tied to North Korea’s crypto conference charged by US prosecutors
April 25, 2022, 3:45PM EDT · 1 min readTwo European individuals allegedly conspired with a United States citizen to provide officials in the North Korean government information to bypass U.S.
sanctions using cryptocurrency, according to aAlejandro Cao de Benos of Spain and Christopher Emms of the United Kingdom allegedly co-founded a pro-North Korea conference called the “Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference,” recruiting U.S citizen Virgil Griffith as a crypto expert. At the 2019 conference, in which members of the North Koreans government were present, Griffith allegedly educated attendees on how cryptocurrency and blockchain could launder money and evade sanctions.
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