The American authorities announced on Monday that they had seized currencies with a training stolen through the “Silk Rudd” website that specializes in drug trafficking ten years ago, at a value of 3. 4 billion dollars when confiscated.
The New York Public Prosecution released a statement on Friday stating that 32-year-old James Jong had admitted to being responsible for the theft of more than 50,000 in September 2012.
In November 2021, virtual cryptocurrencies were found during the search of Jong’s home in Georgia. It was kept on mounted computers inside a metal popcorn box in the bathroom cabinet as well as in devices concealed inside a treasury that the accused himself had hidden beneath the floor.
“Within nearly ten years, the questions associated with the location of this huge amount of bitcoin, which could not be found, have grown to become a mystery of more than $ 3.
In a statement, public defender Damian Williams stated that the amount was $3 billion.
The security forces were able to locate this incredible hideout and recover goods from criminal activity, he continued, thanks to cutting-edge technologies for tracking digital currencies and effective cooperation with the police in the traditional manner.
However, the value of the recovered amount decreased since the operation with the low price of bitcoin, and its value in the last hours reached a little more than one billion dollars.
According to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, Jong tricked the “Silk Rudd” website in 2012 by creating nine different accounts and carrying out nearly 140 quick financial operations to persuade the site’s system to pay close to 50,000 by creating his account, before this sum is transferred quickly. to different addresses
Jong could spend twenty years behind bars. His ruling will be determined in February.
Before the US Federal Police shut it down in October 2013, Silk Road, which launched in January 2011, was used to sell a variety of illicit goods, including drugs with a global market value of $200 million.
Ross Olbrecht, the site’s creator, received a life sentence in 2015.
This is the second largest tuning process for a formation by the American authorities, after the confiscation of 94,000 with a formation of 3.
6 billion dollars in a bilateral possession of New York during a piracy of the Pitifinix platform for digital transactions in 2016.
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The American government seizes a $3.4 billion in stolen training.
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