Two arrested for stealing $711,000 in bitcoins from an exchange in Japan.
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Two arrested for stealing $711,000 in bitcoins from an exchange in Japan.
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The duo is suspected of stealing worth $711,000 worth of bitcoins from the Tokyo-based crypto exchange CoinExchange. The police arrested 25 years old Yuto and 28 years old Takuma for allegedly stealing 78 million yen worth bitcoins on 23rd January.

As reported earlier, $2.8 billion worth of bitcoins tainted with the crime were laundered via crypto exchanges in 2019. According to Chainalysis, more than half of those bitcoins were laundered through the world’s leading crypto exchanges Huobi and Binance.