{"id":38815,"date":"2021-03-12T13:38:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T11:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=38815"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T03:30:44","slug":"romanian-barber-charged-with-620000-cryptocurrency-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/romanian-barber-charged-with-620000-cryptocurrency-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian barber charged with $620,000 cryptocurrency theft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Romanian Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diicot.ro\/mass-media\/3042-comunicat-de-presa-05-03-2021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">arrested<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a resident of Craiova on suspicion of hacking \u201cthe seventh-largest cryptocurrency operator in the world,\u201d based in the Cayman Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 38-year-old barber Ionel Romanu is charged with hacking, high-technology fraud, and money laundering. According to investigators, after the successful attack he exchanged the looted equivalent of $620,000 in cryptocurrency for fiat and began withdrawing in batches of 10,000 Romanian lei ($2,449) to evade identity-verification requirements.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At Romanu&#8217;s home, seven mobile phones, three laptops, five memory cards, two e-wallets, 10,800 lei in cash and 40,000 lei in the account of one of the exchanges were seized as evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The accused was brought before a court in Ia\u0219i, and he was remanded in custody for 30 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier, Chainalysis analysts, in one of their latest reports, hypothesised that the Lazarus group, linked to the North Korean authorities, was involved in<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-links-lazarus-to-kucoin-hack-worth-280m\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the hacking of the KuCoin Bitcoin exchange for $280 million<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania&#8217;s Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism arrested a Craiova resident on suspicion of hacking the seventh-largest cryptocurrency operator in the world, based in the Cayman Islands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1154],"class_list":["post-38815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38817,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38815\/revisions\/38817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}