Arrest by the Basmanny Court of assets in bitcoins (1032 btc or 17 million dollars or 1 billion rubles…

The arrest by the Basmanny Court of assets in bitcoins (1032 btc or 17 million dollars or 1 billion rubles) of the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tverskoy district of Moscow, Marat Tambiev, could be the beginning of one of the largest corruption scandals in law enforcement agencies. A simple study of the wallets in which Tambiev kept the bitcoins allows us to understand that these funds previously belonged to members of the hacker group The Infraud Organization and were written off from the wallets immediately after the searches. Having sent the bitcoins through one wallet, the participants in the thefts divided the loot. 1 thousand bitcoins (over $40 million at the time of the events) went to Tambiev.

Members of The Infraud were detained on January 18, the events were carried out by employees of the Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, Tambiev personally came to the scene, since it was his department that opened the case against the members of the group. If you trace the paths of the bitcoins that have now been seized “from the opposite direction,” you can see the following picture.

During searches of members of The Infraud, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee gained access to ten crypto-wallets, which received 2,064 bitcoins in December 2021 – proceeds from hacking activities. At the time of the events it was approximately $82.5 million. Access to the wallets was provided by the Infraud members themselves, most of whom the investigation led by Tambiev subsequently asked for a preventive measure in the form of house arrest.

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Immediately after the election of the house arrest and as soon as information about the detention of Infraud members hit the media (VChK-OGPU was the first to report this), on January 21, money from 10 Infraud wallets was transferred to one bitcoin wallet. 2064 btc arrives there.

On March 7, 2022, it’s time to cut this jackpot. 932 bitcoins and 100 bitcoins are transferred to two Tambiev wallets installed on his phone. By decision of the Basmanny Court, these funds were seized and on November 17, 2022 they were transferred to a wallet designated by the court.

Also, on March 7, 2022, exactly half of the funds (another 1032 bitcoins) went to the “cold wallet.” These funds continue to remain on it. Earlier, sources of the Cheka-OGPU said that the “second half” of the jackpot went to the employees of Directorate K who took part in the searches. No decisions have been made on them yet.
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