A Nigeria headquarters who go through Steve Witkoff, a long time ally from the president of the United States, Donald Trump and co-president of the Trump-Vance inaugural committee, stole approximately $ 250,000 in cryptography of a possible political donor, according to a recent press announcement from the United States Prosecutor’s Office for the Columbia district.
According to judicial documents, the scammer created a falsified email address that looked a lot like the legitimate email address of the Trump-Vance Committee of Witkoff, and could deceive at least a donor to deposit a value of $ 250,000 of USDT.ETH in the chest wallet. Although the scammer later took measures to wash his bad profits obtained, the Federal Research Office (FBI) He could recover and freeze 40,300 USDT.eth, half of which was found in a Binance account in the name of Ehiremen Aigbokhan, a lake headquarters or “Yahoo Boy”.
The United States prosecutor’s office moved to return the victim’s funds. No more than $ 210,000 have been recovered in scam cryptography.
“All donors must verify that they are doubling and triple that they are sending cryptocurrencies to their planned recipient,” said US fiscal prosecutor Jeanine Ferris Pirro in a statement. “It can be extremely difficult for the law [enforcement] Recover lost funds due to extremely complex nature from the block chain. However, my office and our law partners are ready to face face to face with criminals and make the victims whole. ”
According to multiple local media, US officials seek a formal arrest warrant for Aigbokhan.
Witkoff and his son Zach have close links with the main cryptographic project of the Trump family, World Liberty Financial.
Binance and Tether cooperated with government investigation, said the Department of Justice.
