An American fugitive wanted in your home in connection with a $700 million cryptocurrency scam has actually been arrested in Jakarta on sex charges, Indonesian authorities stated Tuesday.
Russ Medlin, who went into the Southeast Asian country on a traveler visa last year, was captured in the capital Monday after three teenage girls declared he paid to have sex with them, authorities stated.
If convicted under Indonesia ' s child security laws, Medlin could face up to 15 years in prison, police said, adding that they confiscated more than $20,000 in cash from the suspect.
” After the arrest, we checked his identity,” Jakarta authorities spokesperson Yusri Yunus told press reporters on Tuesday, including Medlin was looked for by foreign law enforcement agencies.
According to the Nevada State sex transgressor public website, a Russ Albert Medlin was listed as a “non compliant” tier-two wrongdoer– the second most major– with a Las Vegas address.
In December, the US Justice Department stated three guys had actually been detained in a supposed fraud that raised $722 million from financiers drawn by fake bitcoin mining revenues.
Prosecutors in the United States declare Medlin headed the “BitClub Network,” which took money from investors in a “high-tech Ponzi scheme”.
From April 2014 through December 2019 the group drew in unsuspecting financiers utilizing fraudulent earnings supposed to come from the network ' s mining pool, according to prosecutors.
It was not instantly clear if US authorities would look for Medlin ' s extradition in the cryptocurrrency case.
” We are still waiting on a request from the US Embassy,” Jakarta police ' s unique investigation director Roma Hutajulu stated Tuesday.
The US embassy did not right away respond to ask for remark.
