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Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by paulpauper on Thursday July 21, 2022 @03:07PM (#32183488)
It's amazing how they already had tabs on this guy and just waited for him to leave but without arresting him sooner

if you think you broke the law and want to avoid arrest, stay away from the airport.

anyone who buys a ticket they get your full info and then the arrest is as easy as picking you up at the gate, nowhere to hide.

Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by rglover on Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:37PM (#32186098)
So hire a Coyote into Mexico on foot. Got it.

For my assigned agent: this is not an admission of guilt, just curiosity and information collection. Carry on.

Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by kart23 on Friday July 22, 2022 @12:48PM (#32194140)
lol there’s no departure checks at the border, you can just drive across.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by namecheapTA on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:13AM (#32189077)
You can walk into Mexico basically without a single check of any kind.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by rustqt6 on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:58AM (#32188991)
FBI is too busy planting evidence to assign an agent to every person on HN.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by Diesel555 on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:48AM (#32189259)
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Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by rglover on Friday July 22, 2022 @09:18AM (#32191593)
This sounds like something a cop would say.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by subsaharancoder on Thursday July 21, 2022 @08:37PM (#32187079)
India has an extradition treaty with the U.S. https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/12873-India... sooner or later he'd be back in an orange jump suit
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by csomar on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:29PM (#32188170)
Extradition is 10 order of magnitude harder, even for the US legal system. Plus, he'll have enough time to figure out another country where extraditing him is just not worth it anymore.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by paulpauper on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:34PM (#32188195)
india is a huge country. very easy to get lost, blend in
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by sebmellen on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:31AM (#32188857)
I’m not so sure that’s the case now under the new Aadhaar system.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by rustqt6 on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:56AM (#32188982)
Not really. As a local, I can get by without any aadhaar. He had $1.5m in bank, he could have started his parallel government, or probably for $15m but the fact is that even if you're doing everything by law you don't need aadhaar in India.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by patchtopic on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:57PM (#32187951)
..and with Australia, but one alleged criminal has been gaming the system after fleeing Australia to India for 14 years now:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22puneet+puneet%22

Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by scottiebarnes on Thursday July 21, 2022 @10:14PM (#32187685)
Question is how hard the Indian government would be willing to work to arrest and extradite him.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by ta988 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:39PM (#32188231)
Depends what the US offers in exchange?
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by oarabbus_ on Friday July 22, 2022 @01:03AM (#32188712)
What would they offer to make it worthwhile? It's not like the US is holding Indian nationals in detainment whom the Indian Government would be willing to scour the country to find someone to exchange for release.

Perhaps they would for a violent criminal or terrorist, but it certainly seems unlikely for a relatively small-time white collar criminal. The fraud totaled $1.5M, this guy isn't exactly Bernie Madoff. Surely the US would not expect the Indian Government to spend multiple millions in operational and resource costs to locate, capture, and extradite a nonviolent criminal who made $1.5M illegally.

Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by ta988 on Friday July 22, 2022 @10:15AM (#32192058)
Could be lots of things more or less public and unrelated. One more diplomatic visa, help locating/finding/extraditing an India national from U.S., a little help for a contract... Countries have a lot of "diplomatic" incentives they can use for situations like that. And sometimes it is totally worth spending 10x the fraud amount if what you want to do is an example which could well be the case here.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by nwah1 on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:44AM (#32189240)
In the Twitter thread, it sounds like these guys may be connected to frauds worth tens of millions.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by contingencies on Thursday July 21, 2022 @07:56PM (#32186779)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_name_record

This exists for boats too, and is generally also broadcast between countries before international arrivals for scheduled services.

Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by asveikau on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:12PM (#32185145)
I wonder if the request to show up at the Seattle office was some kind of working with law enforcement. Evidently he planned to flee to India instead of take the meeting. He seems to have known there was risk to him in that meeting.
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by londons_explore on Sunday July 24, 2022 @04:02AM (#32211357)
Could well be he was tipped off about the purpose of the meeting...

Most fully remote companies won't demand an in person meeting unless it's something of a disciplinary nature anyway. Merely a message saying "Your employer requires you to appear at X time at Y place" would be a red flag for many.

The message would say "is it easier to discuss this next to a whiteboard?" If it were friendly...

Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by asveikau on Monday July 25, 2022 @03:33PM (#32229782)
Well it's never happened to me, but they say if you get a meeting invite from human resources at any point, it's clear what's going to happen.

This was a meeting with a security team though?

Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by paulpauper on Thursday July 21, 2022 @06:35PM (#32186078)
it 100% was set up
Re:Former Coinbase PM charged in cryptocurrency insider trad... by hk1337 on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:39PM (#32188234)
Or if you do, make sure you leave the same day and not the next day.