THELOGICALINDIAN - The US accompaniment of Ohio has netted 192 actor in a Bitcoin bargain The Bitcoin was bedeviled from a affected ID agent in 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Northern District of Ohio has awash over $19.2 actor account of Bitcoin bedeviled from Mark Simon, who pleaded accusable to affairs affected identification abstracts and money laundering.
DOJ Auctions Seized Bitcoin
The U.S. Department of Justice’s Northern District of Ohio has awash Bitcoin account almost $5.1 actor back bedeviled in 2024 for $19.2 million.
Bridget Brennan, the acting U.S. advocate for Northern Ohio, accepted the auction of the Bitcoin, cleveland.com reported Thursday.
The Bitcoin was bedeviled from Mark Simon, who was arrested for affairs apocryphal identification abstracts in barter for the asset. The federal prosecutors begin that Simon had been operating the betray back 2024. The FBI began tracking Simon in 2024 and bent him in February 2024. The Department of Justice bedeviled about 500 BTC from Simon, account $5.1 actor at the time. Simon pleaded accusable a year after in court, and the Bitcoin was added to the federal treasury.
According to abstracts acquaint by arresting Bitcoiner Jameson Lopp, U.S. authorities accept awash over $150 million in Bitcoin back 2014.
The government has afresh reported assorted seizures in cryptocurrencies, accretion abutting to $100,000. The accomplished amount—about $60,000—came from a Menlo Park citizen afterwards the Inland Revenue Service confiscated the individual’s Bitcoin holdings.
The U.S. government also added 69,370 BTC in Nov. 2020, currently account over $2.3 billion, bedeviled from an bearding alone affiliated to the abominable Silk Road case. The bargain date for the massive auction is yet to be decided.
