On April 13, the Fucheng Criminal Investigation Brigade of the Yinhai Public Security Bureau, under the guidance of the Economic Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau and the Anti-Fraud Center of the Municipal Bureau, successfully cracked a virtual currency theft case.
In early March, the Fucheng Criminal Investigation Brigade received a report from a citizen, Ms. Li, saying that about 580,000 virtual currencies in her account on a digital currency trading platform had disappeared, with an estimated market value of over 3 million yuan, and asked the police to handle the matter.
The investigation found that there was no sign of hackers breaking into Ms. Li's account and stealing virtual currency. After in-depth research, the police believed that it was very likely that someone close to her committed the crime! Among Ms. Li's friends, only Wu had helped her operate virtual currency transactions, and he was a major suspect.
On the afternoon of April 13, the time for arrest was ripe. With the support of relevant units, police officers from the Fucheng Criminal Investigation Brigade arrested Wu, a suspect in a community in Haicheng District, who was suspected of stealing virtual currency.
After being arrested, Wu believed that the account he used to transfer the stolen virtual currency was not in his real name, and the public security authorities had no evidence and could not find out the facts of his crime. He denied stealing Li's virtual currency. After the incident, he took the initiative to accompany Li to report the case to the public security authorities, and tried to interfere with the investigation.
However, the devil is always better than the truth. The police obtained the key evidence by retrieving the victim's stolen virtual currency account flow and combining it with the suspect Wu's related transfer records of virtual currency transactions through WeChat. Faced with the overwhelming evidence, Wu finally bowed his head and truthfully confessed his crime of stealing other people's virtual currency.
It turned out that on January 13 this year, Wu stole Li's account and password by taking advantage of the opportunity to help him sell virtual currency, and on February 26, he transferred about 580,000 virtual currencies (Tether) from Li's account. Subsequently, Wu converted some Tether into other virtual currencies and sold the rest of the Tether, earning a total of more than 2 million yuan. Wu has used the money to buy commercial housing and repay debts.