Read all of our stories on the Liberty Reserve case here. NEW YORK – The head of technology for Liberty Reserve, an alternative digital currency used in what…
[caption id="attachment_45269" align="alignright" width="300"] The Tico Times[/caption] A key defendant in the U.S. prosecution of the defunct digital currency company Liberty Reserve pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal…
See below for story updates At 11:45 a.m. on Thursday, Costa Rican authorities escorted a handcuffed Maxim Chukharev on to United flight 1081, bound for Newark, New Jersey.…
MADRID – A Spanish court on Friday approved the extradition to the United States of the founder of what the U.S. calls the world's biggest money-laundering operation.…
MADRID – Arthur Budovsky, founder of the electronic payment platform Liberty Reserve, in a court appearance Monday denied committing any crimes and said he would fight U.S. efforts…
Maxim Chukharev’s mother, Dina, is restless. Sitting at a conference table in a newspaper office, she launches into her story in impetuous Spanish peppered with a thick…
Yessenia Valerio Vargas, a Costa Rican woman who was paid to marry Arthur Budovsky – the founder and owner of the now-defunct online currency company Liberty Reserve – will…
NEW YORK – Two suspects pleaded not guilty Thursday in what U.S. authorities say is the largest international money laundering prosecution, which targeted a Costa Rica-based digital currency operator.…
In the wake of last Friday’s arrest of online currency company Liberty Reserve’s founder, Arthur Budovsky, and several accomplices who were charged by U.S. federal officials on…
Officials from the United States and Costa Rica on Wednesday said they need more streamlined and efficient measures to help prevent Costa Rica from being used as…
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