{"id":44804,"date":"2022-05-24T20:38:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/fbi-seeks-arrest-of-man-claiming-to-be-north-korea-special-delegate"},"modified":"2022-05-24T20:38:49","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T11:38:49","slug":"fbi-seeks-arrest-of-man-claiming-to-be-north-korea-special-delegate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44804","title":{"rendered":"FBI seeks arrest of man claiming to be North Korea \u2018special delegate\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spaniard alleged to have conspired with cryptocurrency expert to help Pyongyang evade US sanctions<\/p>\n<p>The FBI has issued an arrest warrant for a Spanish man who claims to be a \u201cspecial delegate\u201d working for the government of North Korea, accusing him of recruiting a cryptocurrency expert in an attempt to help Pyongyang circumvent US sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Cao de Ben\u00f3s, a 47-year-old Spanish national who describes himself as Pyongyang\u2019s special delegate for the committee for cultural relations with foreign countries, is alleged to have conspired with Virgil Griffith, a US cryptocurrency expert, to \u201cillegally provide cryptocurrency and blockchain services to the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea (DPRK)\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/may\/24\/fbi-seeks-arrest-of-man-claiming-to-be-north-korea-special-delegate\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spaniard alleged to have conspired with cryptocurrency expert to help Pyongyang evade US sanctionsThe FBI has issued an arrest warrant for a Spanish man who claims to be a \u201cspecial delegate\u201d working for the government of North Korea, accusing him of re&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1160,"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":[41,310,1093,40,746,58,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cryptocurrencies","category-fbi","category-north-korea","category-spain","category-technology","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804","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\/1160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44805,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44804\/revisions\/44805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}