早期比特幣投資者 Frank Richard Ahlgren III 承認少報 370 萬美元比特幣收益

這標誌著美國第一起僅針對加密貨幣的刑事逃稅案件。

A Texas federal court judge has ordered Frank Richard Ahlgren III and his associates to surrender all crypto private and public keys, accounts, and access codes. Ahlgren, an early Bitcoin investor, was sentenced to two years in prison for tax fraud in December. As part of a court-issued restraining order, he was ordered to hand over his crypto and other wallet private keys and access codes.

德州聯邦法院法官命令弗蘭克理查德阿爾格倫三世 (Frank Richard Ahlgren III) 及其同夥交出所有加密私鑰和公鑰、帳戶和存取代碼。 Ahlgren 是早期比特幣投資者，去年 12 月因稅務詐欺被判處兩年監禁。作為法院發布的限制令的一部分，他被命令交出他的加密貨幣和其他錢包私鑰和存取代碼。

Ahlgren misreported capital gains from over $3.7 million in Bitcoin sales between 2017 and 2019, owing the US government approximately $1.1 million in restitution. On Jan. 6, Austin Federal Court Judge Robert Pitman ordered Ahlgren, along with his family, friends, and advocates, to identify and surrender any devices used to store his cryptocurrency, as well as any public keys, private keys, seed phrases, or passphrases.

Ahlgren 誤報了 2017 年至 2019 年間超過 370 萬美元的比特幣銷售資本收益，欠美國政府約 110 萬美元的賠償。 1 月6 日，奧斯汀聯邦法院法官羅伯特·皮特曼(Robert Pitman) 命令Ahlgren 及其家人、朋友和支持者查明並交出用於存儲其加密貨幣的任何設備，以及任何公鑰、私鑰、助記詞或密碼。

Pitman ordered all parties to identify all accounts related to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Ether. He also prohibited the parties from transferring any of Ahlgren’s cryptocurrency without first having it approved by a court. This includes any action that could hide, reduce, or lower the value of cryptocurrency unless funds are used for “normal monthly living expenses.”

皮特曼命令各方查明與比特幣、比特幣現金、萊特幣和以太幣相關的所有帳戶。他還禁止雙方在未經法院批准的情況下轉移任何 Ahlgren 的加密貨幣。這包括任何可能隱藏、減少或降低加密貨幣價值的行為，除非資金用於「正常的每月生活費用」。

The court order will remain effective as long as Ahlgren fulfills the restitution obligation imposed by the court or until a further court order is issued.

只要 Ahlgren 履行法院規定的歸還義務，或在發布進一步的法院命令之前，法院命令將一直有效。

In September 2024, Ahlgren admitted to filing a false tax return and received his sentence in December. Ahlgren acquired approximately 1,366 Bitcoin using Coinbase in 2015, when Bitcoin was valued at $465. Two years later, he sold around half of it at $5,800 per Bitcoin, totaling $3.7 million. However, in his 2017 tax return, he “substantially inflated” the cost basis of Bitcoin, making the capital gain seem smaller than it was.

2024 年 9 月，阿爾格倫承認提交了虛假納稅申報表，並於 12 月被判刑。 2015 年，Ahlgren 使用 Coinbase 購買了大約 1,366 個比特幣，當時比特幣的估值為 465 美元。兩年後，他以每個比特幣 5,800 美元的價格出售了大約一半，總計 370 萬美元。然而，在 2017 年的報稅表中，他「大幅誇大」了比特幣的成本基礎，使得資本利得看起來比實際上要小。

Between 2018 and 2019, the investor sold Bitcoin for more than $650,000 without reporting the sales on his tax returns. Prosecutors stated that he used different wallets, in-person transactions, and mixers to hide details of transfers.

2018 年至 2019 年間，該投資者以超過 65 萬美元的價格出售了比特幣，但沒有在報稅表上報告銷售額。檢察官表示，他使用不同的錢包、面對面交易和混合器來隱藏轉帳細節。

The total tax losses from all his actions exceeded $1 million. The court also ordered him to serve one year of supervised release following his 24-month prison sentence.

他所有行為造成的稅收損失總額超過 100 萬美元。在被判處 24 個月監禁後，法院還下令他在監外執行一年。

This was the first criminal tax evasion prosecution that was exclusively focused on cryptocurrencies, said Lucy Tan, acting special agent in charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation’s Houston Field Office.

負責國稅局刑事調查休士頓辦事處的代理特工露西·譚 (Lucy Tan) 表示，這是第一起專門針對加密貨幣的刑事逃稅起訴。