The eccentric couple charged with laundering billions of dollars’ worth of hacked bitcoin used tricks that were “pulled from the pages of a spy novel” – with financial accounts in Russia and Ukraine, fake identities and a “contingency plan” to flee overseas, the feds said in court documents.Prosecutors warned Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, 34, and his amateur rapper girlfriend Heather Morgan, 31 – who are charged with laundering $4.5 billion in crypto stolen in a 2016 hack – should remain in custody until their trial given “highly troubling” access to hundreds of millions of dollars in cryptocurrency, overseas connections and fake identities.“Having now been charged and seeing the strength of the case, the defendants’ incentive to flee is dramatically increased,” the prosecutors said. “In short, no condition or combination of conditions can reliably ensure the appearance of such sophisticated defendants with the means to flee and ample incentive to do so.”
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