US Department of Justice documents suggest MoonPay executives may send $250,000 to Nigerian fraudsters
TechFlame
2025-07-12 22:58
TechFlame2025-07-12 22:58
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TechFlame reports that, as first reported by NOTUS, a document submitted by the US Department of Justice aimed at recovering cryptocurrencies obtained through fraud may have inadvertently revealed that the victim of the scam was the CEO and chief financial officer of the crypto payment company MoonPay.
The documents only refer to the victims as “Ivan” and “Mouna.” However, as NOTUS notes, the crypto payments company Moonpay's CEO is Ivan Soto-Wright, and the CFO is Mouna Ammari Siala. Additionally, Etherscan listed the wallet involved in this $250,300 transaction as a MoonPay wallet.
The document aims to seize approximately $40,350 USDT frozen by Tether, revealing that two victims remitted $250,300 USDT to a person posing as President Trump's inaugural committee co-chair Steve Witkoff (Steve Witkoff).