American Connected to Bitcoin Scam Arrested in Indonesia for Child Sex Crimes

An American criminal wanted at home regarding a $700 million digital money scam has been captured in Jakarta on sex charges, Indonesian specialists said Tuesday. 

Russ Medlin, who entered the Southeast Asian country on a tourist visa a year ago, was captured in the capital Monday after three young ladies affirmed he paid to have intercourse with them, police said. 

Whenever indicted under Indonesia’s child security laws, Medlin could look as long as 15 years in jail, police stated, including that they appropriated more than $20,000 in real money from the suspect. 

“After the arrest, we checked his identity,” Jakarta police representative Yusri Yunus told columnists on Tuesday, including that Medlin was looked for by remote law authorization organizations. 

As indicated by the Nevada State sex guilty party open site, a Russ Albert Medlin was recorded as a “non compliant” level two wrongdoer – the second generally genuine – with a Las Vegas address. Another cop said that Medlin could likewise confront removal to the United States. 

Medlin has been on a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) needed rundown for violations identified with a venture trick in bitcoin stocks, Yunus stated, including the trick totaled $722 million. 

In December, the US Justice Department said three men had been captured in a supposed misrepresentation that raised $722 million from speculators baited by counterfeit bitcoin mining profit. 

Examiners in the United States claim Medlin headed the “BitClub Network,” which took cash from financial specialists in a cutting edge Ponzi scheme. 

From April 2014 through December 2019 the gathering pulled in clueless financial specialists utilizing deceitful profit implied to originate from the system’s mining pool, as indicated by investigators.

Reuters couldn’t freely affirm Medlin was on the FBI’s wanted rundown. Indonesian specialists said they were organizing with the American international embassy. 

“We are still waiting for a request from the US Embassy,” Jakarta police’s uncommon examination executive Roma Hutajulu said Tuesday. 

It was not promptly clear on the off chance that US specialists would look for Medlin’s removal in the cryptocurrency case.

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