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Today in crypto, the US Justice Department is moving to forfeit 127,271 Bitcoin, worth about $14.4 billion, tied to a fraud case. Meanwhile, US spot Bitcoin and Ether ETFs started the week with more than $750 million in outflows after Friday’s crash, and Bhutan migrated its national ID system from Polygon to Ethereum.
A US federal court has unsealed a criminal indictment involving a massive fraud scheme that could result in the government increasing its national Bitcoin reserves by $14 billion.
In a Tuesday notice from the US Justice Department, authorities said they had filed a forfeiture complaint against 127,271 Bitcoin (BTC), worth about $14.4 billion at the time of publication. The Bitcoin was tied to an indictment against Chen Zhi, founder and chair of a Cambodia-based company that was allegedly responsible for orchestrating “pig butchering” crypto investment schemes.
The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Zhi’s company, the Prince Holding Group, and its affiliates on the same day the indictment was unsealed.
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