State flag of the USA NEW YORK, February 9, Alan Bulkaty. Russian citizen Ilya Lichtenstein, arrested in New York on charges of laundering stolen bitcoins in the amount of $ 4.5 billion, has not yet turned to the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in New York for help, Consul General Sergey Ovsyannikov told RIA Novosti. «He did not contact us on any issues «Neither he nor the lawyer. We don't know whether he will apply or not. If he applies, and something needs to be decided specifically, we will decide,» Ovsyannikov said.
In the US, neighbors told about a Russian arrested in the bitcoin case
