{"id":627226,"date":"2026-07-10T12:53:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/us-charges-prisoner-over-alleged-laundering-of-seized-kraken-crypto\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T12:53:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T12:53:38","slug":"us-charges-prisoner-over-alleged-laundering-of-seized-kraken-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/us-charges-prisoner-over-alleged-laundering-of-seized-kraken-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"US charges prisoner over alleged laundering of seized Kraken crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/hi-how-to-spot-an-exit-scam-doj.jpg\" alt=\"US charges prisoner over alleged laundering of seized Kraken crypto\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>US prosecutors charged Rossen Iossifov over the alleged laundering of $290,000 in forfeited crypto from a Kraken account.<\/p>\n<p>United States prosecutors have charged a man serving a federal prison sentence over the alleged removal and laundering of about $290,000 in crypto assets held in a Kraken account subject to a forfeiture order.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/man-serving-federal-prison-sentence-charged-theft-forfeited-cryptocurrency\">said<\/a> on Thursday that Rossen Iossifov, a Bulgarian national, conspired in January 2024 to withdraw and transfer crypto that a federal court had ordered forfeited following his 2021 conviction. Prosecutors allege that the assets were moved through illicit mixing services and crypto exchanges before the US could take possession.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The case shows how attempts to move crypto after a forfeiture order can trigger fresh criminal charges, even after the underlying conviction.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/us-prisoner-290k-crypto-restrained-kraken-account\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US prosecutors charged Rossen Iossifov over the alleged laundering of $290,000 in forfeited crypto from a Kraken account. United States prosecutors have charged a man serving a federal prison sentence over the alleged removal and laundering of about $290,000 in crypto assets held in a Kraken account subject to a forfeiture order.\u00a0 The Department of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-627226","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}