• The U.S. Department of Justice officially accepted in October 2025 that Williams entered into various written contracts with the Russian broker.
• As per the claims, Williams also shifted the crypto via anonymised transactions before cashing out and spent more than $715,000 on vacations. 

An official from Australia who was admitted guilty to selling sensitive cyber tools to a broker from Russia, and the payment was done in crypto under contracts guaranteeing millions more, making crypto the core of a case prosecutors claimed endangered Five Eyes intelligence abilities. 

Prosecutors claimed Peter Williams, a native of Australia, sold 8 safeguarded cyber-exploit components, adding zero-day capabilities, to a Russia-based…