{"id":19618,"date":"2020-06-23T08:57:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T23:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/23\/new-zealand-makes-its-biggest-ever-asset-seizure-over-alleged-vast-bitcoin-ring"},"modified":"2020-06-23T08:57:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T23:57:19","slug":"new-zealand-makes-its-biggest-ever-asset-seizure-over-alleged-vast-bitcoin-crime-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19618","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand makes its biggest ever asset seizure over alleged vast bitcoin crime ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police believe assets were being held in company owned by Russian man who has denied any involvement<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand police have seized assets worth NZ$140m ($90.68m) linked to a Russian man suspected of laundering billions of dollars in digital currency.<\/p>\n<p>The police said it seized the assets because they were being held in a New Zealand company owned by Alexander Vinnik, who is accused of masterminding a bitcoin laundering ring and is wanted by both France and the United States.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/23\/new-zealand-makes-its-biggest-ever-asset-seizure-over-alleged-vast-bitcoin-ring\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police believe assets were being held in company owned by Russian man who has denied any involvementNew Zealand police have seized assets worth NZ$140m ($90.68m) linked to a Russian man suspected of laundering billions of dollars in digital currency.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,309,310,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-bitcoin","category-cryptocurrencies","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19619,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19618\/revisions\/19619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}