{"id":1860355,"date":"2023-11-21T01:40:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/romanian-hells-angels-leader-used-bitcoin-for-drugs-and-murder\/"},"modified":"2023-11-21T01:40:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T06:40:50","slug":"romanian-hells-angels-leader-used-bitcoin-for-drugs-and-murder","status":"publish","type":"station","link":"https:\/\/platogaming.com\/plato-data\/romanian-hells-angels-leader-used-bitcoin-for-drugs-and-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Romanian Hells Angels Leader Used Bitcoin For Drugs And Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The leader of a Romania-based chapter of the Hells Angels was convicted in Texas for a plot that involved trafficking over 400kg of cocaine, arms dealing, money laundering, and using bitcoin to pay for the assassination of two rival gang leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n

According<\/span><\/a> to the Department of Justice\u2019s (DoJ) announcement last week, 50-year-old Marius Lazar was the founding member of his local Hells Angel chapter in Bucharest, Romania. <\/span><\/p>\n

Following his arrest in November 2020 and subsequent extradition to the US , a jury has now found Lazar guilty of conspiring to commit racketeering, conspiring to import cocaine into the United States, and conspiring to commit money laundering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lazar\u2019s sentencing has yet to be scheduled. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Hells Angels Leader Ordered Drugs And Assassin With Bitcoin<\/span><\/h3>\n

Lazar was brought into a conspiracy through a Hells Angels member from New Zealand that involved ordering 400kg of cocaine from a supposedly powerful drug dealer in the US. <\/span><\/p>\n

What the gang failed to realize, however, was that the dealer was actually an undercover agent of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).<\/span><\/p>\n

Lazar ordered the cocaine from the agent and paid for the assassination of two members of a rival motorcycle club in Romania. Close to $1 million in bitcoin and fiat were reportedly sent by the gang as payment. <\/span><\/p>\n

The 50-year-old also offered to supply the undercover agent with \u201crifles, grenades, armored vehicles, and other military-grade equipment,\u201d in case the murders spiraled into killing US police officers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Two New Zealanders arrested in the same DEA raid that caught Lazar are also reportedly still on the run. According to the New Zealand <\/span>Herald<\/span><\/a>, fugitives Murray Michael Matthews and Marc Patrick Johnson were not extradited but instead granted bail by a Romanian court.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s reported the pair then fled the country; they remain missing. Mathews is said to be a member of the Hells Angels Auckland chapter while Johnson is reportedly a trained chemist and long-standing meth cook \u2014 reportedly one of the very first in New Zealand.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n

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