The South African government is scheduled to arrest Riccardo “Fluffypony” Spagni in the United States on Tuesday, 5 July 2022.
This comes after the US government delayed Spagni’s surrender from the evening of 4 July to the morning of 5 July, avoiding the arrest happening on a public holiday — Independence Day in the US.
Spagni served as the lead maintainer of the privacy-focussed Monero cryptocurrency for five years. He stepped down in December 2019.
He waived his right to an extradition hearing in the US and asked the court to expedite his return to South Africa to face the charges.
Spagni was ordered to surrender to US Marshalls at 09:00 local time, or 16:00 in South Africa.
He was held in Tennessee after being arrested in Nashville while travelling to Los Cabos, Mexico from New York to attend a cryptocurrency conference.
The South African government says it has charged Spagni with 378 counts of fraud, forgery, and uttering in a R1,453,561.47 dispute with his former employer, Cape...
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