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Two Estonian citizens were arrested and accused of what the US prosecutors described as fraud and money laundering in the amount of $ 575 million in cryptocurrency.

Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turygin are accused of cheating hundreds of thousands of victims, according to the US Justice Ministry, which opened an indictment against them on Monday.

The defendants are said to have tempted victims to complete rental contracts for fraudulent devices with the crypto mining service for men. They are also accused of requesting investments in a virtual monetary bank called Polybius Bank, which according to the public prosecutor's office was neither a bank nor had promised dividends.

The arrest of the two men at the age of 37 is the latest indication that the law enforcement authorities are increasingly focusing on illegal crypto activities around the world.

The arrests in Tallinn, Estonia, also take place in the middle of the FTX bankruptcy, a former cryptoplate form that was controlled by Sam Bankman-Fried, which was considered one of the flag bearers of the crypto industry at his peak of his influence.

"New technologies have made it easier for bad actors to take advantage of innocent victims - both in the United States and abroad - in increasing more complex fraud," said the deputy attorney in General Kenneth Polite.

At the beginning of this month, the United States obtained the condemnation of James Zhong, who once value Bitcoin worth more than 3 billion