FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The subject of a South Florida federal money laundering sting asked two informants posing as cocaine traffickers for a gruesome and violent favor, according to court documents.
According to the FBI, Shlomo Akuka had a multimillion-dollar cryptocurrency debt with a Brazilian man to settle. And agents said he was not only willing to have that man kidnapped, but his daughters as well ― and to have their hands and fingers cut off until he got what he was owed.
Akuka, 30, of Hallandale Beach, was scheduled to face a Fort Lauderdale federal judge Monday morning on money laundering and money laundering conspiracy charges following his arrest Friday…