Federal court building, USAWASHINGTON, Feb. 11 A court in the United States ordered the transfer of Russian Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan, who are suspected of laundering stolen bitcoins worth several billion dollars, from New York to Washington and set a meeting to consider their case on Monday, February 14. «The US Marshals Service immediately transport clients from the southern district of New York to District of Columbia for further investigation of this case,» the District of Columbia federal court said in a ruling. The document includes a handwritten addition stating that the court hearing will take place on February 14 at 2 pm US capital time (22.00 Moscow time). US law enforcement announced this week about the arrest of a married couple who lived in New York, and the seizure of $ 3.6 billion in bitcoins from them, associated with a cyber-hacking of the Bitf cryptocurrency exchange inex in 2016. According to the prosecution, they were trying to «launder» more than 119 thousand stolen bitcoins.
