德州比特幣投資者在稅務詐欺定罪後被勒令交出加密貨幣和錢包金鑰

弗蘭克·理查德·阿爾格倫三世 (Frank Richard Ahlgren III) 錯誤地少報了 2017 年至 2019 年間超過 370 萬美元的比特幣 (BTC) 銷售的資本收益，欠美國的錢

An early Texan Bitcoin investor has been ordered to identify and hand over any physical devices used to store his cryptocurrency, along with any public keys, private keys, seed phrases or passphrases, as part of a restraining order.

作為限制令的一部分，一名早期的德州比特幣投資者被命令識別並交出用於儲存其加密貨幣的任何實體設備，以及任何公鑰、私鑰、助記詞或密碼。

Frank Richard Ahlgren III, who was sentenced in December to two years in prison for tax fraud, was ordered by Austin Federal Court Judge Robert Pitman on Jan. 6 to identify and provide the devices.

弗蘭克·理查德·阿爾格倫三世(Frank Richard Ahlgren III) 於12 月因稅務欺詐被判處兩年監禁，奧斯汀聯邦法院法官羅伯特·皮特曼(Robert Pitman) 於1 月6 日下令他識別並提供這些設備。

Ahlgren III, along with any of his family, friends or representatives, have also been ordered to identify all crypto accounts relating to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin Gold, Ether and Litecoin and banned from shifting any of Ahlgren’s cryptocurrency without prior approval from the court.

Ahlgren III 及其家人、朋友或代表也被命令查明與比特幣、比特幣現金、比特幣黃金、以太幣和萊特幣相關的所有加密貨幣帳戶，並禁止在未經法院事先批准的情況下轉移Ahlgren 的任何加密貨幣。

The order will be in full force until Ahlgren satisfies any restitution obligation ordered by the court or until further order from the court. Ahlgren is owing the U.S. government around $1.1 million in restitution after falsely underreporting capital gains on over $3.7 million in Bitcoin sales between 2017 and 2019.

該命令將完全有效，直到 Ahlgren 履行法院命令的任何歸還義務或法院發出進一步命令為止。 Ahlgren 因謊報 2017 年至 2019 年間超過 370 萬美元的比特幣銷售資本利得而欠美國政府約 110 萬美元的賠償。

Ahlgren pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in September 2024 and was sentenced in December. In 2015 — a year when Bitcoin peaked at around $465 — he purchased approximately 1,366 Bitcoin using Coinbase.

Ahlgren 承認於 2024 年 9 月提交虛假報稅表，並於 12 月被判刑。 2015 年，比特幣價格達到 465 美元左右的峰值，他使用 Coinbase 購買了大約 1,366 個比特幣。

He then sold around half of it two years later at around $5,800 per Bitcoin for $3.7 million but “substantially inflated” the cost basis of the Bitcoin in his 2017 tax return, thereby making the capital gain less than it actually was.

兩年後，他以每比特幣約5,800 美元的價格以370 萬美元的價格出售了大約一半的比特幣，但在2017 年的納稅申報表中「大幅誇大」了比特幣的成本基礎，從而使資本利得低於實際水準。

Ahlgren then sold Bitcoin for more than $650,000 between 2018 and 2019 but did not report the sales on his tax returns. Prosecutors said he used multiple wallets, in-person transfers and mixers in an attempt to conceal details about the transaction.

隨後，Ahlgren 在 2018 年至 2019 年間以超過 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，他使用多個錢包、親自轉帳和混合器，試圖隱瞞交易細節。

The total tax losses from all his actions are over $1 million. He’s also ordered to serve one year of supervised release on top of his 24-month prison sentence.

他所有行為造成的稅收損失總計超過 100 萬美元。除了 24 個月的監禁外，他還被勒令在監管下服刑一年。

Ahlgren’s case marked the first criminal tax evasion prosecution centered solely on cryptocurrency, according to the acting special agent in charge of IRS-Criminal Investigation’s Houston Field Office, Lucy Tan.

負責美國國稅局刑事調查休士頓辦事處的代理特別探員露西·譚 (Lucy Tan) 表示，阿爾格倫的案件標誌著第一起僅針對加密貨幣的刑事逃稅起訴。