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Couple charged with billion-dollar crypto heist are ‘major flight risks’, prosecutors say

Prosecutors dealing with the case say bail needs to be rescinded for Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan

Prosecutors say there is overwhelming evidence that Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan, charged in a billion-dollar crypto heist, are major flight risks and their bail needs to be rescinded.

The hipster New York couple charged in one of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency thefts had been quietly setting up bank accounts in Russia and had travelled to Ukraine in order to obtain false identity documents, authorities said.

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