As the Cheka-OGPU previously found out, during searches of members of The Infraud, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Investigative Committee gained access not only to wallets with 317 bitcoins, but also to ten crypto-wallets, which received 2064 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, headed by the head of the Tverskoy District Investigation Department, Marat Tambiev, then asked for a preventive measure in the form of house arrest.
The Cheka-OGPU managed to track the fate of these bitcoins. 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. And after that, exactly half went to Tambiev, and the second half, according to preliminary data, to the employees of K.’s Directorate.
After the arrest, their lawyer Roman Meyer began to extort money from the Bergmans, declaring that they still had to pay 1 million dollars and 26 million rubles for the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor’s office, so that everything would end well for the Infraud participants. Then the Bergmans turned to the FSB of the Russian Federation and detained Meyer and Tambiev along the chain.
The Basmanny court seized the bitcoins in Tambiev’s wallet. However, an investigation into the theft of the remaining bitcoins has not yet begun.
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