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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is having trouble serving a court summons to a binary options trader charged in January with stealing more than $1 million in bitcoin.
The U.S. commodities regulator claimed in a court filing Tuesday that Dillon Michael Dean is avoiding their attempts to present him with the summons. The CFTC is now asking the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York to give it permission to use email or an alternative method to serve Dean with the complaint, alleging that existing methods are proving difficult to perform.
Russian government officials and businessmen helped the Venezuelan government launch the world’s first state-backed cryptocurrency, Time Magazine reported Tuesday.
Citing anonymous officials familiar with the matter, the report states that billionaires Dennis Druzhkov and Fyodor Bogorodsky advised Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in his efforts to build the petro. Further, Time reported that “senior advisers to the Kremlin” oversaw the petro’s development, with the support of Russian president Vladimir Putin.