{"id":31090,"date":"2020-11-02T12:52:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-02T10:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31090"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:59:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T22:59:33","slug":"former-russian-hockey-player-jailed-for-four-years-for-cryptocurrency-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/former-russian-hockey-player-jailed-for-four-years-for-cryptocurrency-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Russian hockey player jailed for four years for cryptocurrency fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">The Presnensky Court in Moscow found the former Slovak Slovan Bratislava hockey player Igor Musatov guilty of cryptocurrency fraud on a particularly large scale.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to <\/span><a href=\\\"https:\/\/sportrbc.ru\/news\/5f9fc55f9a79473e0bc5ec99?ruid=uUjlA12e+LlPbRQjA3u6Ag==\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"noopener noreferrer\\\"><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">RBK<\/span><\/a><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">, citing the court&#8217;s press service, he was sentenced to four years in a general-regime penal colony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Musatov himself did not admit guilt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">Earlier, the suspect <\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">was detained<\/span><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\"> last year in connection with a Bitcoin fraud case worth $800,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\\\"font-weight: 400;\\\">According to investigators, in 2018 he arranged to sell cryptocurrency to entrepreneur V. M. Abelyan, but the bitcoins were never received by him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\\\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"_blank\\\" rel=\\\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\\\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presnensky Court in Moscow found the former Slovak Slovan Bratislava hockey player Igor Musatov guilty of cryptocurrency fraud on a particularly large scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1154,27],"class_list":["post-31090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-russia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"44","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31092,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions\/31092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}