Earlier, Christopher Emms was released by Saudi authorities due to the lack of evidence against him.
The local Interpol brigade detained a French citizen charged by the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) in Moscow. Accused of conspiring to violate the U. S. ban on North Korea.
According to local media reports on February 21, Christopher Ames was arrested in Moscow after receiving a red message from Interpol. A 31-year-old American citizen was detained in his dorm room.
In April 2022, along with Italian people Alejandro Cao de Bedios, EMMS was revealed to show how North Korea used blockchain and digital currency technology to launder money and evade the ban. The two-person program planned and established the Seoul blockchain and Digital currency Conference in 2019.
The third participant in the trick is Virgil Griffith, a former Etherum real estate developer. He was arrested by the Federal Bureau of investigation (FBI) in November 2019 and surrendered and sentenced to 63 months in prison. Instead, Ames could be imprisoned for up to 20 years on charges of collusion in violation of the International Emergency Economic Development Rights Act (IEEPA).
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Lada Sterling, founder of the International Institute of legal principles, a social organization that helps defend people's rights in front of global law enforcement agencies, has previously claimed that there is no strong and direct evidence against EMM:
"just because she didn't do anything wrong; he didn't provide any information to North Korea, which is already on Google's home page."
In September 2022, Saudi Arabia requested extradition from the United States on the grounds of lack of legal provisions and released EMM after an eight-month travel ban. He immediately left his country and fled to Russia. However, while the host country is the target of the United States Justice Department's efforts to impose financial sanctions on the password industry, it is clear that the local enforcement company has identified the same industry in the United States to assist him.