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Liberty Reserve Owner Arrested! by Nobody: 7:33am On May 25, 2013 |
Liberty Reserve Shut down ? www.ticotimes.net/More-news/News-Briefs/Costa-Rican-arrested-in-Spain-for-alleged-financial-crimes_Friday-May-24-2013 May-24-2013 Arthur Budovsky Belanchuk, 39, on Friday was arrested in Spain as part of a money laundering investigation performed jointly by police agencies in the United States and Costa Rica. Costa Rican prosecutor José Pablo González said Budovsky, a Costa Rican citizen of Ukrainian origin, has been under investigation since 2011 for money laundering using a company he created in the country called Liberty Reserve. Local investigations began after a request from a prosecutor’s office in New York. On Friday, San José prosecutors conducted raids in Budovsky's house and offices in Escazá, Santa Ana, southwest of San José, and in the province of Heredia, north of the capital. Budovsky's businesses in Costa Rica apparently were financed by using money from child pornography websites and drug trafficking. New York conviction According to records from the U.S. Justice Department, on July 27, 2006, Budovsky and a partner identified as Vladimir Kats were indicted by the state of New York on charges of operating an illegal financial business, GoldAge Inc., from their Brooklyn apartments. They had transmitted at least $30 million to digital currency accounts worldwide since beginning operations in 2002. The digital currency exchange, GoldAge, received and transmitted $4 million between Jan. 1, 2006, and June 30, 2006, as part of the money laundering scheme. Customers opened online GoldAge accounts with limited documentation of identity, then GoldAge purchased digital gold currency through those accounts; the defendants' fees sometimes exceeded $100,000. Customers could choose their method of payment to GoldAge: wire remittances, cash deposits, postal money orders or checks. Finally, the customers could withdraw the money by requesting wire transfers to accounts anywhere in the world or by having checks sent to any identified individual. Budovsky and Kats were sentenced to five years in prison for engaging in the business of transmitting money without a license, a felony violation of state banking law, but got probation. |
Re: Liberty Reserve Owner Arrested! by Nehemiah459(m): 8:08am On May 25, 2013 |
Wow..... Will I say that its the hand of Paypal to frustrate Nigerians? No!!! The man is running an illegal entity. But what of people that have little change in their account? 1 Like |
Re: Liberty Reserve Owner Arrested! by Nobody: 8:18am On May 25, 2013 |
Nehemiah459: Wow..... Will I say that its the hand of Paypal to frustrate Nigerians? No!!! The man is running an illegal entity. But what of people that have little change in their account? It's unfortunate, so many people will lose thousands of dollars because of this. 1 Like |
Re: Liberty Reserve Owner Arrested! by Nobody: 8:21am On May 25, 2013 |
It will be hard to tell between legit and non-legit payments so everything could be seized by the Feds. But legally they are entitled to let everyone cashout their money but not sure if they will since LR was mostly used for illegal payments. |
Re: Liberty Reserve Owner Arrested! by denitro(m): 8:54am On May 25, 2013 |
Fake news |
Re: Liberty Reserve Owner Arrested! by Nobody: 9:35am On May 25, 2013 |
denitro: Fake news Is that what you think? Let's wait and see. |
Re: Liberty Reserve Owner Arrested! by mukina2: 10:12am On May 25, 2013 |
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