The US government is moving to delete Roger Ver’s tax case with a $ 50m deal

A California federal court is closer to removing criminal accusation against Bitcoin advocate Roger Ver, known to many as “Bitcoin Jesus.”

On a Tuesday filed in the US district court for the California Central District, the US government filed a proposed order for Judge Michael Fitzgerald to remove Ver’s accusation without caution.

The government said it reached a VER agreement to pay $ 49.9 million and “all taxes, penalties, and interests” on Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax responsibilities for its Bitcoin (Btc) Holdings.

The proposed dismissal arrives after the US government filed a postponed persecution agreement In September, the placement of the conditions for Ver to remove his case. Ver admitted that he was asked to file a statement and pay taxes on some crypto assets before turning away from his US citizenship in 2014.

The initial accusation, filed in April 2024, said Ver was incorrectly reported on tax forms related to the nearly 131,000 BTC he had controlled, worth $ 74 million in 2014. The US Department of Justice said Ver attempted to avoid paying taxes on his ownership by refusing his citizenship and the US citizenship became a sta. Kitts and Nevis.

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“The accused of S, when he filed his return in May 2016, they did not ‘not report the ownership of all these Bitcoins and did not report capital earnings from the constructive sale of all these Bitcoins,’ which led to a loss in the United States of $ 16,864,105,” said Tuesday’s Tuesday.

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Although the proposed movement of dismissal has not been approved by a federal judge at the time of this writing, the fact that this was not opened by Ver’s lawyers and based on an agreement with prosecutors suggested that the criminal case was near.