A married couple nicknamed “Bitcoin Bonnie and Crypto Clyde” have pleaded guilty to laundering $4.5 billion (£3.5bn) in stolen cryptocurrency.
Heather Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein were arrested in New York last year after police linked their lavish lifestyle to a crypto heist, in what the US Justice Department called its “largest financial seizure ever”.
The Justice Department managed to recover £2.8bn out of the stash of some 120,000 bitcoin, which is today worth £3.5bn.
