Early bitcoin investor Roger Ver arrested, charged with alleged tax fraud | Headlines | News | CoinMarketCap

05/01/2024 02:07
Early bitcoin investor Roger Ver arrested, charged with alleged tax fraud | Headlines | News | CoinMarketCap

A freshly unsealed indictment revealed three charges against Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoin. Ver is charged with alleged mail fraud, tax …

A freshly unsealed indictment revealed three charges against Roger Ver, an early investor in bitcoin.

Ver is charged with alleged mail fraud, tax evasion and filing false tax returns, according to a Tuesday statement from the U.S. Department of Justice. Ver was arrested this weekend in Spain, with possible extradition to the United States.

Ver allegedly concealed bitcoin ownership from the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and caused the purported loss of $48 million, the release continues.

"The indictment further alleges that by June 2017, Ver’s two companies continued to own approximately 70,000 bitcoins. Around that time, Ver allegedly took possession of those bitcoins and in November 2017 sold tens of thousands of them on cryptocurrency exchanges for approximately $240 million in …

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