{"id":507733,"date":"2023-01-13T15:20:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T15:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=507733"},"modified":"2023-01-13T17:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T17:37:36","slug":"four-accused-in-bulgarian-probe-of-crypto-lender-nexo-investigators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/four-accused-in-bulgarian-probe-of-crypto-lender-nexo-investigators","title":{"rendered":"Four accused in Bulgarian probe of crypto lender Nexo -investigators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOFIA, Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Investigators looking into crypto lender Nexo on Friday said that four citizens of Bulgaria had been accused of participating in an organised crime group for money laundering as well as tax and computer fraud. Bulgarian prosecutors on Thursday said they launched an investigation into alleged illegal activities conducted by Nexo, carrying out raids at the lender&#8217;s office and 14 other sites in the capital Sofia. Nexo had said after Thursday&#8217;s operations that the raided office was not customer facing but has only back office functions. It said it has enforced strict anti-money laundering and know-your-customer policies. A Nexo spokesperson said the company would comment later on Friday. Bulgaria&#8217;s chief prosecutor on Friday said the investigation had started several months back. Investigators were working in coordination with U.S. and British counterparts, and more than 20 people have been questioned. They planned to begin an audit of Nexo, they said. Officials said two of the accused were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOFIA, Jan 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Investigators looking into crypto lender Nexo on Friday said that four citizens of Bulgaria had been accused of participating in an organised crime group for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[313,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-507733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crypto","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}