US authorities suspect the special services of the PRC of bribing by bitcoins of American officials – Bits Media

The prosecutor's office of the Eastern District of New York is suspected, that the officers of the PRC intelligence tried to collect information about the trial against Huawei Technologies.

Gochun he (Guochun He) And Zheng Van (Zheng Wang), Representatives of the supervisory authority, They tried to interfere investigation, Including through an attempt to bribe an employee of US law enforcement agencies with bitcoins in the amount of $ 61,000.

US Prosecutor General Merrick Garland (Merrick Garland) associated this statement with two other actions, undertaken by prosecutors in New York and New Jersey, who charged against a number of people, working for the Chinese government for various accusations of surveillance and persecution.

In the testimony, signed by a special agent of the FBI for supervision Thomas Ryder (Thomas Ryder), Cryptocurrencies are mentioned several times. In the protocol, the suspects called the cottage of bribes by bitcoins - "Safe payment to an employee of law enforcement agencies of the USA":

"I suggest you exchange bitcoins for cash confidentially and safely in one of the Las Vegas casinos".

According to the testimony, The defendants paid with bitcoins to officials with two transactions for $20 000 and $41 000. One of the transactions was allegedly a fee for familiarization with the classified document, which was supposed to help in Huawei.

Last week, the US Department of Justice reported, that he suspects five citizens of Russia and two Venezuela citizens of laundering through bitcoins of money, obtained from the criminal scheme for the sale of oil of the St. Petroleos de Venezuela sanctions company (PDVSA).