Man is guilty of having stolen Bitcoin from the US government confiscated-featured

Harmon owed the wire fraud and the disability of the judiciary because he had illegally taken more than 712 Bitcoin that had been confiscated by the law enforcement authorities and had fallen in the pending law enforcement of Larry Harmon.

As part of his plea, Gary Harmon agreed, "cryptocurrencies and other assets that come from the fraudulent proceeds, including more than 647.41 Bitcoin ( bitcoin ), 2,14 ethereum ( ETH ) and 17.404,400.64 Dogecoin (Doge), "added the doj. "Due to the increase in market prices, the total value of this decayable real estate exceeds $ 12 million."

The stolen "confiscated" Bitcoin

The stolen Bitcoin was saved in a Trezor hardware wallet, which was confiscated by the Federal Government in connection with Larry Harmon, which was arrested in February 2020. The device was kept in a locker in the internal Revenue Service (IRS). Due to the complex safety of the device, the federal authorities had not taken control of the coins, the Doj.

LARRY HARMON confessed in August 2021 to the money laundering conspiracy in connection with "his operation by Helix, a money laundering service for cryptocurrencies based on the Darknet, which is known as 'mixer' or 'tumbler'", explained the doj and stated:

How Harmon admitted later, Wusch Helix cried over 350,000 Bitcoin-worth over $ 300 million at the time of the transactions-on behalf of customers, whereby the largest volume came from Darknet markets.

The law enforcement authorities confiscated various assets as part of his arrest, including a hardware letter bag with the illegal revenue from his helix surgery.

While the government was still trying to gain access to the confiscated bitcoins, Gary Harmon used the registration information from his brother to transfer more than 712 Bitcoin At that time worth around 4.8 million US dollars, from his brother's confiscated device to his own Bitcoin money exchanges in April 2020. Then he washed the proceeds from two online mixers before using it to finance his own expenses, described the doj.

The Ministry of Justice found that in relation to the Gary Harmon case:

The indictment for transfer fraud provides for a statutory maximum sentence of up to 20 years in prison; The charges of disability of the judiciary are threatened with a legal sentence of 20 years.

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Kevin Helms

As a student of Austrian economics, Kevin Bitcoin discovered in 2011 and has been an evangelist ever since. His interests lie in Bitcoin security, open source systems, network effects and the interface between economy and cryptography.

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