FBI seizes almost $2M of crypto assets in three months
A public filing launched by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shows that the law enforcement company took around $1.7 million worth of digital properties from March to May.According to the Filing, the FBI took $147,000 in Bitcoin (BTC), $800,000 in Ether (ETH), $307,000 in Tether (USDT), 469,000 in Dai (DAI) and $20,000 in Monero (XMR). The FBI composed:”The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) provides notice that the home noted below was taken for federal forfeiture for infraction of federal law. Related: FBI searched Kraken co-founders house in March: ReportMeanwhile, the FBI has been continuously reminding the crypto community about scammers posing as legitimate individuals within the nonfungible token (NFT) area.
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