An unknown person stole more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a US government wallet. The next day he gave most of it back. “Only” $1.2 million worth of crypto coins are still missing.
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Market observer ZachXBT has drawn attention to this strange phenomenon. There are no known statements from officials. Ethereum cryptocurrency and stablecoin coins are affected. They are just a small part of the loot from the Bitfinex hack seized by US authorities in 2022.
Seized in 2022
In 2016, Russian and US dual citizen Ilya Lichtenstein confessed to breaking into the Hong Kong cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. The theft caused the price of Bitcoin to fall. In 2017, Lichtenstein and his wife Heather “Razlekhan” Morgan tried to execute a robbery at great expense. According to the investigating tax authority, the couple operated at least ten different cryptocurrency exchanges, various accounts under their own and fake names, shell companies, exchanges for various other cryptocurrencies, gold purchases, dollar withdrawals from crypto ATMs and Even used gift vouchers purchased. With Bitcoin. The criminals also purchased Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs) with Bitcoin – a popular method of money laundering at the time. The software helped to automatically process thousands of small transactions in a short period of time.
The pair were exposed in 2022 and crypto holdings worth several billion dollars were seized. The man and his rapping wife have been found guilty. The punishment of these two is still pending. The public prosecutor’s office proposed a surprisingly short prison sentence by American standards: 5 years for Lichtenstein, a year and a half for Rappler. If the court agrees with this suggestion, we can expect more Razlakhan videos in the near future. A sample:
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The thief did not touch Donald Trump’s coin
In 2022, a small portion of the Bitfinex loot seized by a US authority was put into a now-affected cryptocurrency wallet. A portion of it was invested in stablecoins on cryptocurrency lending platforms to earn interest. At some point, a prankster donated a small amount of Donald Trump Memecoins to this wallet.
On Thursday, an unknown person first took stablecoins from the credit platform and then completely emptied the wallet, except for Trumpcoins. Most crypto coins bounced back on Friday. How decrypt reportThe recovered holdings were moved to another wallet an hour later. Administration The American authority probably intended to throw its sheep out of the woods. Only the TrumpCoins in the wallet remained untouched, which have since been wiped out.
criminal proceedings are called USA vs. Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Rhiannon Morgan and is pending in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia under case number 1:22-MJ-00022.
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