On the 30th of April in the year 2024, the United States Department of Justice took into custody Roger Ver, an early backer of bitcoin, over accusations of tax avoidance and the submission of deceitful tax documentation. A new development emerges alongside a statement from Bitcoin.com addressing the allegations directed at the company’s creator.

Roger Ver Accused of Dodging Tax Payments
As per the DOJ announcement, it is stated that come the year 2014, Roger Ver and his companies, namely Memorydealers and Agilestar, purportedly had authority over in excess of 131,000 bitcoins, each with an estimated value of about $871. Allegedly, Memorydealers and Agilestar had control over around 73,000 of these bitcoins. However, he stands accused of providing false details to legal and appraisal experts to diminish the declared worth of these assets.

The supposed falsification, as contended by the U.S. authorities, led to the underreporting of the companies’ tax filings and the sidestepping of the obligatory “exit tax” pertaining to the increase in value of assets across different regions. Following his capture in Spain, the DOJ has proclaimed plans to bring him back to America for trial proceedings.