THELOGICALINDIAN - Over 3 billion account in bitcoin bedeviled by the US Department of Justice DOJ acceptance to Silk Road are acceptable affiliated to a above US Secret Service abettor The latest allegation advance that Individual X is in actuality Shaun Bridges
Bridges Is Set to Be Freed in November
Per contempo cloister filings, cited by Fortune, the 69,370 bitcoins taken by the law administration additionally accept accessible ties with Carl Mark Force IV, a above official from the Drug Administration Administration (DEA). Both agents were allotment of the investigations accompanying to the now-defunct darknet marketplace.
Although the address cannot be taken as a acknowledged acceptance of Bridges’ affiliation with the BTC seized, Fortune acicular out that some clues in a DOJ account afford some ablaze about it:
It’s account acquainted that the ashamed U.S. Secret Service abettor was bedevilled for application an informant’s accreditation in the Silk Road case to abduct BTC from the vendors. He got a book of 71 months in bastille in 2015.
Afterward, Bridges served an added two-year book in 2024 afterwards argumentation accusable to money bed-making charges. He’s accepted to be a chargeless man in November 2024, as he’s still in a Nashville federal prison.
Disgraced US Agent Likely Has Secret Crypto Wallets
However, added clues arose during the accomplished case afterwards some letters fabricated the account in 2016. Bridges planned abominably to flee the country, as he approved to administer for citizenship in adopted countries.
Fortune says such a flight plan could advance that he ability accept added abstruse crypto wallets to armamentarium its escape.
As of now, the “Individual X” wallet contains a agnate bulk — of the BTC seized — in added cryptos such as bitcoin banknote (BCH), bitcoin gold (BTG), and bitcoinsv (BSV).
According to cloister filings, Ross Ulbricht — who the U.S. government claims is the administrator abaft Silk Road and currently spends a bifold activity imprisonment book — declared that he wouldn’t booty any acknowledged claims BTC seized.
Our newsdesk published in November 2020 an all-embracing angle about the Silk Road bitcoin abode that was bedeviled by the U.S. authorities.
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