The US federal police seized some of the 119,574 chips of this cryptomonnaie who had been hacked in 2016 from the BitFinex platform. From this package, their value has flexed.
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So goes the magic of Bitcoins: the booty stolen in 2016 was $ 71 million (€ 62 million); The one recovered by the US Federal Police (FBI) is worth $ 3.6 billion (3.1 billion euros), fifty times more, at the current price.
Justice of the United States seized 94,000 of the 119,574 Bitcoins who had been hacked in 2016 from the BitFinex platform in Hong Kong and arrested, Tuesday, February 8 in Manhattan, the concealers of the package, Ilya Lichtenstein, a Russian-American aged 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, a 31-year-old American ‘Razzlekahn’ nickname.
The US Department of Justice has made a great advertising of this transaction, while the cryptodes have become the new crime border. “The arrests of today and the greatest financial seizure ever carried out by the ministry show that cryptomonnaie is not a safe refuge for criminals, said Lisa Monaco’s Deputy Attorney. In a futile effort to maintain The digital anonymity, the accused bleached funds stolen through a cryptomonnaie transaction labyrinth. Thanks to the meticulous work of the law enforcement, the ministry has once again shown how it can follow and follow the money, Whatever its shape. “
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According to the US parquet, the two acolytes have done everything to whiten the 119,754 Bitcoins stolen at the time and who had landed on a controlled account by Ilya Lichtenstein. On this total, 25,000 bitcoins have transited by complex bleaching circuits, sometimes very fast, from one cryptomonnaie to another; They would have been invested in gold, in NFT – unique digital images that are millennials – and even in Walmart purchase cards or Uber payments; 94,000 tokens remained, on the initial portfolio: it is these funds that American justice seized, succeeding in finding the key to open the safe safe.
The total value of the 119,754 Bitcoins today is about $ 4.5 billion. A boon for bitfinex who hopes to recover his precious tokens. “BitFinex will work with the Ministry of Justice and will follow the appropriate legal procedures to establish our rights to a stolen bitcox”, writes the platform in a statement. The return of funds can only be done with the approval of a US judge.
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