Bitcoin Foundation is a trade group promoting the adoption of digital currency. Shrem, who is known as the biggest promoter of Bitcoin, was arrested on Sunday at the John F. Kennedy International Airport, New York.
Prosecutor from the High Court of Manhattan said that Shrem was charged with operating an unlicensed money transmitting business with a total value of US$1 million.
The 24-year-old entrepreneur, who lives above a bar he jointly owns in Manhattan that accepts bitcoins as payment, was also the CEO of BitInstant, a bitcoin exchange company that was closed last summer.
According to prosecutors, Shrem conspired with a Florida resident Robert Faiella, who ran an illegal exchange, to sell more than US$1 million in bitcoins to users of Silk Road, which was shut by authorities last year.
Faiella, 52, was charged with conspiring to commit money laundering and operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. He was arrested at his home in Coral Gables, Florida. At his court hearing on Monday, January 27, 2014, at the Florida federal court, Faiella consented to detention until Wednesday, January 29, 2014.
Source : Tempo
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