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Emma Munbodh

Rapper dubbed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' arrested for ‘laundering £3bn stolen Bitcoin’

A rapper who described herself as the 'Crocodile of Wall Street' has been arrested for allegedly laundering £3.3billion worth of stolen Bitcoin.

Heather Morgan, 31, and tech entrepreneur husband, Ilya "Dutch" Lichtenstein, 34, were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly laundering billions of pounds worth of the cryptocurrency after the Bitfinex exchange was hacked in 2016.

Morgan, who refers to herself as 'the infamous Crocodile of Wall Street' on her artist website, was arrested in the US over the £3.3billion heist.

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