Microsoft employee got nine years in prison for bitcoin fraud

Employee Microsoft, who used these colleagues for fraud with bitcoin and various gift cards, received nine years in prison.

26-Summer Ukrainian Vladimir Kvachuk lived in Washington and worked at Microsoft since August 2016 years to June 2018 of the year. He He used the personal data of colleagues for theft and subsequent resale of various gift cards.

Kvashchuk brought profit to Bitcoin and used mixing services, to hide the origin of funds. After that, cryptocurrency exchanged for US dollars and was transferred to Kvashchuk accounts. The damage from his actions was $10 million.

Interesting, that Kvashchuk even reported to the US tax service (IRS) About that, that I received bitcoins. truth, In his tax return, the criminal indicated, What a relative gave him cryptocurrency.

According to the special IRS agent Ryan Corner (Ryan Korner) This is the first thing in the USA, related to bitcoin and tax fraud. He noted, that now IRS has all the necessary competencies to track cryptocurrencies:

“Simply put, Today's sentence shows, that you cannot steal funds via the Internet, lead them through bitcoin and think, that it hid your crime ".

Kvashchuk was found guilty of 18 cases of violation of federal laws, including six cases of money laundering and two cases of filing false tax returns. For funds received, a former Microsoft employee bought a house on the lake $1.6 million, as well as Tesla electric car for $160 000.

Recall, that in early November, Russia was condemned by former hockey player Igor Musatov for fraud with cryptocurrencies. He was punished in the form of four years in a general regime colony.