In 2020, IRS agent Tigran Gambaryan traced and seized 69,370 bitcoins stolen from the Silk Road drug market.
Now, as those coins are set to be sold off by the US gov—$4.4 billion, the biggest criminal seizure ever to flow into the treasury—he's in jail in Nigeria.
https://www.wired.com/story/4-4-billion-silk-road-bitcoin-tigran-gambaryan/
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