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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Via AP news wire

Cryptocurrency expert gets 5 years in NKorea sanctions case

Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.

A cryptocurrency expert was sentenced Tuesday to more than five years in federal prison for helping North Korea evade U.S. sanctions.

Virgil Griffith, 39, pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy, admitting he presented at a cryptocurrency conference in Pyongyang in 2019 even after the U.S. government denied his request to travel there.

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