ChainCatcher message, according to Cryptonews, Russia has begun selling the Bitcoin seized from the Infraud hacker organization during the investigation in 2023. This move indicates that Moscow hopes to exchange over 1,000 Bitcoins for fiat currency. The Russian official news agency TASS confirmed this development, stating that Moscow will first sell the Bitcoin seized from former Investigative Committee investigator Marat Tambiev, valued at nearly 10 million dollars.
Last year, Tambiev was convicted of accepting bribes from the hacker organization. Prosecutors found hundreds of Bitcoins on his computer and storage devices. The former investigator was convicted of receiving 1,032.1 Bitcoins from the organization and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. However, the efforts of the bailiffs to liquidate the entire 1,032.1 Bitcoins became complicated due to legal obstacles. Tambiev seems to have divided these Bitcoins into several smaller amounts. This means the bailiffs must submit separate court rulings to allow Moscow to access these Bitcoins. Nevertheless, the bailiffs have successfully persuaded the court to allow them to sell the first batch of Bitcoins. They stated that Tambiev had stored these Bitcoins in a Ledger Nano X hardware wallet.
