JAKARTA – Federal prosecutors in Manhattan announced Monday, November 7 that Authorities in the United States are seeking a confiscation order for more than $1 billion worth of Bitcoin stolen from online marketplace Silk Road in 2012.
In the second largest seizure in Justice Department history, law enforcement confiscated 50,000 Bitcoins during a November 2021 search in Gainesville, Georgia, the home of James Zhong.
Zhong on Friday 5 November had pleaded guilty to wire fraud that tricked Silk Road's processing system into releasing funds into his account.
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Bitcoin at that time was worth more than 3 billion US dollars, but the value of this cryptocurrency has lost about two thirds of its value.
Silk Road was seized by the US government in 2013, when officials described the underground site as a massive drug and money-laundering market.
Website creator Ross Ulbricht was convicted in 2015 of seven counts of enabling the sale of illegal drugs through Bitcoin. He was sentenced to life in prison, and lost an appeal in 2017.
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