An enormous stack of seized Bitcoin (BTC) belonging to the US authorities is on the transfer, on-chain information exhibits.
In response to Blockchain.com, an address labeled as “The US Division of Justice” despatched a complete of 9,825 BTC, price round $302 million, to a sequence of addresses.
It’s doable the Bitcoin is being despatched to a crypto trade like Coinbase to be offered on the open market.
In March, the federal government announced its intention to dump the 51,351 BTC that it seized from James Zhong, who managed to hack illicit on-line market Silk Highway. Federal authorities tracked down the stolen Bitcoin at Zhong’s Georgia dwelling, seizing the Bitcoin in November 2021, when it was price $3.6 billion. Zhong pleaded responsible to committing wire fraud in reference to the theft.
At the moment, the identical day that the federal government’s Bitcoin was noticed shifting, the USA Legal professional for the Southern District of New York announced {that a} senior adviser to the Silk Highway market was sentenced to twenty years in jail for his position within the operation.
Roger Thomas Clark, additionally recognized by a sequence of on-line monikers, was sentenced for conspiring to distribute “large portions” as he labored alongside Ross Ulbricht, the primary proprietor and operator of the web site, who’s presently serving a life sentence.
Says U.S. Legal professional Damian Williams,
“Silk Highway was a secret on-line market for unlawful medication, pc hacking companies, and a number of different felony exercise. Roger Thomas Clark was a central determine in serving to to steer Silk Highway and in advocating violence, even homicide, to guard this digital drug empire. At the moment’s sentence is one other reminder that felony marketplaces, like Silk Highway, are a highway to jail.”
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