早期比特币投资者 Frank Richard Ahlgren III 承认少报 370 万美元比特币收益

这标志着美国第一起仅针对加密货币的刑事逃税案件。

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.

德克萨斯州联邦法院法官命令弗兰克·理查德·阿尔格伦三世 (Frank Richard Ahlgren III) 及其同伙交出所有加密私钥和公钥、账户和访问代码。 Ahlgren 是一名早期比特币投资者，去年 12 月因税务欺诈被判处两年监禁。作为法院发布的限制令的一部分，他被命令交出他的加密货币和其他钱包私钥和访问代码。

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 误报了 2017 年至 2019 年间超过 370 万美元的比特币销售资本收益，欠美国政府约 110 万美元的赔偿。 1 月 6 日，奥斯汀联邦法院法官罗伯特·皮特曼 (Robert Pitman) 命令 Ahlgren 及其家人、朋友和支持者查明并交出用于存储其加密货币的任何设备，以及任何公钥、私钥、助记词或密码。密码短语。

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与比特币、比特币现金、莱特币和以太币相关的所有账户。他还禁止双方在未经法院批准的情况下转让 Ahlgren 的任何加密货币。这包括任何可能隐藏、减少或降低加密货币价值的行为，除非资金用于“正常的每月生活费用”。

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 履行法院规定的归还义务，或在发布进一步的法院命令之前，法院命令将一直有效。

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，阿尔格伦承认提交了虚假纳税申报表，并于 12 月被判刑。 2015 年，Ahlgren 使用 Coinbase 购买了大约 1,366 个比特币，当时比特币的估值为 465 美元。两年后，他以每个比特币 5,800 美元的价格出售了大约一半，总计 370 万美元。然而，在 2017 年的纳税申报表中，他“大幅夸大”了比特币的成本基础，使得资本收益看起来比实际要小。

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 年间，该投资者以超过 65 万美元的价格出售了比特币，但没有在纳税申报表上报告销售额。检察官表示，他使用不同的钱包、面对面交易和混合器来隐藏转账细节。

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.

他所有行为造成的税收损失总额超过 100 万美元。在被判处 24 个月监禁后，法院还下令他在监外服刑一年。

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.

负责国税局刑事调查休斯敦办事处的代理特工露西·谭 (Lucy Tan) 表示，这是第一起专门针对加密货币的刑事逃税起诉。