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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Roshan Ashraf Shaikh

Twelve people sentenced for cryptocurrency heists and laundering — perpetrators stole up to $3.5 million

Bitcoin removed from a safe.

A federal judge in Greensboro, North Carolina, recently sentenced 25-year-old Remy Ra St Felix, Jacob Gabriel Seemungal, and ten other accomplices for multiple armed home invasions, assault, and robbery of various households, one of which included cryptocurrency heists by accessing victim's exchange accounts. The trial was held between September 5 and September 12, and the court documents indicated that two were from Palm Beach and others were foreign co-conspirators who stole through the victim's cryptocurrency exchanges.

The U.S. Department of Justice issued a press release announcing the successful judicial process of all twelve conspirators, with St Felix being the head of the group. The total heist from multiple victims was over $3.5 Million. This case is a large operation and hence involved investigation by multiple divisions, including the police department and the FBI in New York, the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), and several others.

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