The Standard Ministry of Justice acquires $ 225 million in a coding of fraud

the Ministry of Justice On Wednesday, the largest American seizure ever announced Coded Associated with the so -called “Slaughter“The fraud that cost billions of victims in the world.

Federal prosecutors provided a civil confiscation procedure targeting more than $ 225 million in the encrypted currency that was tracked to a network of sprawling fraudulent investment platforms. The victims were deceived to believe that they were investing in legitimate encryption projects, just to be afraid of criminal networks operating abroad abroad.

“This seizure of $ 225.3 million of funds related to the investment of the encrypted currency Fraud operations “It coincides with the largest encrypted workpiece in the history of the US Secret Service,” Sean Bradstrit, a special agent responsible for the American San Francisco field office for the US service.

The authorities said that the network was linked to at least 400 suspect victims worldwide, including dozens of fraud in the United States for encryption, were responsible for the losses of more than $ 5.8 billion last year, according to FBI data.

The seized funds are now subject to confiscation procedures that aim to return the money ultimately to the victims.

The American Secret Service and the Federal Investigation Office used Blockchain analysis and other tools to track the cryptocurrency again to the stolen assets. The Ministry of Justice has strengthened the world’s biggest stablecooin, to help in the process.

According to the complaint, the funds were linked to stealing funds from the victims of fraud in investing in the encrypted currency, known as confidence fraud that often involved romance.

The network relied on hundreds of thousands of transactions to hide the origin of the money, using advanced Blockchain maneuvers to hide the flow of stolen assets.