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HashFlare Ponzi Scheme: Founders Mistakenly Told to Self-Deport Before Sentencing In a surprising twist to the HashFlare Ponzi scheme, U.S. immigration authorities mistakenly instructed Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin—the Estonian co-founders of the $577 million crypto fraud—to self-deport. However, this order directly contradicted a federal court mandate requiring them to stay in Washington state until…