德克萨斯州比特币投资者在税务欺诈定罪后被勒令交出加密货币和钱包密钥

弗兰克·理查德·阿尔格伦三世 (Frank Richard Ahlgren III) 错误地少报了 2017 年至 2019 年间超过 370 万美元的比特币 (BTC) 销售的资本收益，欠美国的钱

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.

作为限制令的一部分，一名早期的德克萨斯比特币投资者被命令识别并交出用于存储其加密货币的任何物理设备，以及任何公钥、私钥、助记词或密码。

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.

弗兰克·理查德·阿尔格伦三世 (Frank Richard Ahlgren III) 于 12 月因税务欺诈被判处两年监禁，奥斯汀联邦法院法官罗伯特·皮特曼 (Robert Pitman) 于 1 月 6 日下令他识别并提供这些设备。

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、朋友或代表还被命令查明与比特币、比特币现金、比特币黄金、以太币和莱特币相关的所有加密货币账户，并禁止在未经法院事先批准的情况下转移 Ahlgren 的任何加密货币。

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.

该命令将完全有效，直到 Ahlgren 履行法院命令的任何归还义务或法院发出进一步命令为止。 Ahlgren 因谎报 2017 年至 2019 年间超过 370 万美元的比特币销售资本收益而欠美国政府约 110 万美元的赔偿。

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 承认于 2024 年 9 月提交虚假纳税申报表，并于 12 月被判刑。 2015 年，比特币价格达到 465 美元左右的峰值，他使用 Coinbase 购买了大约 1,366 个比特币。

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.

两年后，他以每比特币约 5,800 美元的价格以 370 万美元的价格出售了大约一半的比特币，但在 2017 年的纳税申报表中“大幅夸大”了比特币的成本基础，从而使资本收益低于实际水平。

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.

随后，Ahlgren 在 2018 年至 2019 年间以超过 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，他使用多个钱包、亲自转账和混合器，试图隐瞒交易细节。

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.

他所有行为造成的税收损失总计超过 100 万美元。除了 24 个月的监禁之外，他还被勒令在监管下服刑一年。

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.

负责美国国税局刑事调查休斯敦办事处的代理特别探员露西·谭 (Lucy Tan) 表示，阿尔格伦的案件标志着第一起仅针对加密货币的刑事逃税起诉。