PANews reported on October 9 that according to Protos, Russia sentenced a former chief investigator to 16 years in prison for accepting a bribe of 1,032 bitcoins from a group of hackers, currently worth $65 million. Last year, Marat Tambiyev was accused of accepting bitcoin bribes from people associated with the Infraud Organization hacker group he was investigating while working for the Russian Investigative Committee. As part of the deal, Marat Tambiyev agreed not to confiscate the organization's illegally obtained bitcoins. He subsequently received half of the illegal assets on April 7, 2022. Marat Tambiyev has denied the charges and claimed that he was framed. He intends to appeal the verdict along with his colleague Kristina Lyakhovenko, who was sentenced to nine years in prison for the same case.
