Early bitcoin Investors and Advocate Roger Ver is close to arranging tax fraud charges with the US Department of Justice, The New York Times Reported Thursday.
Often known as “Bitcoin Jesus” because of his early evangelist for crypto, Ver was accused of in April And arrested in Spain in allegations that he failed to file taxes on the capital earnings he made after selling “ten -ten thousand” of the Bitcoins and surrendered to the US citizenship, the DOJ will be charged at that time. Ver fought with his extradition In the US, it was a lawsuit earlier this Tag -War.
According to the Times, the proposed regimen is subject to change but will see a ver paying nearly $ 48 million for the taxes he claims to be in debt. It has not been filed or approved by the federal judge who oversees the case.
A spokesperson for the Los Angeles office of the US Department of Justice, who filed the accusation, referred to CoinDesk at the DOJ’s main offices in Washington, the DC a speaker for the DC office did not immediately return a request for comment. Ver did not return a request for comment.
Ver told Times that he could not comment.
The court docket shows that there is a hearing scheduled for December 15, 2025.
Ver tapped Roger Stone, an associate of US President Donald Trump, to go to the lobby for his assistance in solving the case, according to A lobbying registration Stone was filming earlier this year.
Trump has forgiven many other crypto figures from re -obtaining office as president earlier this year, including Ross Ulbricht, Arthur Hayes and other Bitmex founders – as well as Bitmex itself, After the company has previously been promised in violation of the Bank Secrecy Act.
Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the founder of Binance, also applied for a presidential pardon.
