In the USA, a sentence in the case of the sale of secret data for cryptocurrency was sentenced

A nuclear engineer from Maryland and his wife are sentenced to prison terms for espionage. This was reported by the Ministry of Justice of the United States.

According to court documents, 44-year-old Jonathan Toebbe was https://gagarin.news/news/fidelity-will-allow-its-customers-to-have-bitcoin-retirement-accounts/ an employee of the Department of Navy. Together with his wife Diana in the summer of 2021, he tried to sell secret data related to the design of warships with nuclear engines.

By e -mail, Toebbe communicated, as he expected, with a representative of a foreign state. However, the latter turned out to be an agent of the FBI under the cover.

These spouses were transferred on SD cards, which were hidden in sandwiches with peanut oil, wrappers from chewing gum and patch. For information, they planned to get $ 100,000 in unnamed cryptocurrency.

The couple was detained while trying to transfer secret information. In February 2022, they found themselves guilty of a conspiracy.

On November 9, the court sentenced Jonathan Tooebbe to the age of 19, and his wife – by 21 in prison.

Recall that in February 2021, two US Navy employees accused more than 9,000 people for $ 160,000 in Bitcoin.

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