The U.S. Attorney's Office has alleged that two Chinese intelligence officers tried to bribe the official with $61,000 worth of bitcoins.
The United States Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York is acting in response to an ongoing federal criminal investigation, as well as the prosecution of a global telecommunications firm, based in China.
It is an issue of a "double agent" who was in the service of the FBI. There is information that this agent took bribes in BTC twice.
PRC intelligence officers tried to insulate a firm, located in the People's Republic of China, from obligations and destroy the unity of the US judicial system.Merrick Garland
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