{"id":30590,"date":"2025-06-06T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30590"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:17:07","slug":"doj-seeks-to-seize-7-7-million-in-bitcoin-ethereum-nfts-allegedly-laundered-by-north-korean-it-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=30590","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Seeks To Seize $7.7 Million In Bitcoin, Ethereum, NFTs Allegedly Laundered By North Korean IT Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ)\u00a0has filed a civil forfeiture\u00a0complaint to seize over $7.74 million in cryptocurrency and NFTs, allegedly connected to North Korean money laundering operations.<\/p>\n

What Happened:\u00a0<\/strong>The Justice Department is moving to seize a range of cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins, Bitcoin<\/strong> (CRYPTO: BTC<\/a>), NFTs, and Ethereum<\/strong> (CRYPTO: ETH<\/a>) Name Service domains\u2014stored in self-custody wallets and Binance accounts. These assets are tied to a civil forfeiture complaint filed on June 5 in federal court in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n

The DOJ\u00a0claims\u00a0that North Korean IT workers, under false identities, earned the crypto while working remotely for blockchain firms.\u00a0The funds were originally frozen in April 2023 after Sim Hyon Sop<\/strong>, a China-based banker, was indicted for allegedly helping facilitate the money laundering scheme.\n<\/path>\n<\/path>\n<\/path>\n<\/path><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ)\u00a0has filed a civil forfeiture\u00a0complaint to seize over $7.74 million in cryptocurrency and NFTs, allegedly connected to North Korean money laundering operations. What Happened:\u00a0The Justice Department is moving to seize a range of cryptocurrencies, including stablecoins, Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), NFTs, and Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) Name Service domains\u2014stored in self-custody wallets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-30590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}