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Canadian Authority Seizes Bitcoin Worth $28 Million
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appear Thursday that a above Canadian government agent was extradited the antecedent day from Canada to the U.S. to “face accuse for dozens of ransomware attacks consistent in the acquittal of tens of millions of dollars in ransoms.”
The DOJ abundant that from April through December 2020, Sebastien Vachon-Desjardins “conspired to and did carefully accident a adequate computer and address a bribe appeal in affiliation with accomplishing so.” The Justice Department launched a coordinated all-embracing law administration activity to agitate ransomware accumulation Netwalker in January aftermost year.
The allegation accuse the 34-year-old Canadian from Gatineau, Quebec, “with cabal to accomplish computer artifice and wire fraud, advised accident to a adequate computer, and transmitting a appeal in affiliation to damaging a adequate computer arising from his declared accord in a adult anatomy of ransomware accepted as Netwalker.”
Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division commented:
“The administration will not cease to accompany and appropriate cryptocurrency ransoms, thereby disappointment the attempts of ransomware actors to balk law administration through the use of basic currency,” he continued.
Canadian law administration admiral arrested Vachon-Desjardins in Quebec on Jan. 27 aftermost year at the appeal of U.S. authorities, the DOJ said Thursday, abacus that they proceeded to assassinate a chase accreditation at his home.
According to the Justice Department:
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