Read all of our stories on the Liberty Reserve case here. NEW YORK -- The founder of virtual currency firm Liberty Reserve, Arthur Budovsky, was extradited Friday from…
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…
Our most-clicked stories of 2013 involved, certainly not unexpectedly, a mix of scandal and mystery. These topics included the biggest alleged money-laundering case in history, an environmentalist's…
For more than five decades, readers have come to the pages of The Tico Times for captivating and deeply reported stories. This year was no exception. Some…
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…
