The Department of Justice reported yesterday that it filed a civil complaint to connect to $ 225.3 million in cryptocurrency linked to the crypto investment scams. In a press release, the DOJ said it tracked and targeted the accounts that were “part of a sophisticated blockchain -based money laundering network”, which dispersed the funds taken from more than 400 suspected victims of fraud.
The 75 -page complaint filed in the US District Court for the district of Columbia contains more details about confiscation. According to the IT, the US Secret Service (USS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tied the scammers to seven groups of Teacher Stable Queen Token. This fraud falls under the name of “Surasing:”, commonly known as the purpose of operating, which aims to deceive the victims-sometimes with fake romantic relationships-which they believe is a profit-making crypto investment, then a lucrative investment. The butcher of pigs often does labor traffic that directs the victims directly with Southeast Asian countries, something that the DOJ has accused of allegedly committed by the ring.
The DOJ says the Teacher and the Crypto Exchange OKX first informed law enforcement agencies in a series of accounts in 2023 that they believed that the launder was helping the launder through a wide and complex web of transactions. The alleged victims include Sean Hans (also known as SH), a former president of the Heartland Trie State Bank, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison for tens of millions of dollars to invest in a famous and most destructive pig scam. The complaint contains a list of several other victims who lost thousands or millions of dollars, they think they are investing (and they did not commit their crimes). A FBI report submitted by the press release concludes that the overall fraud of the Crypto investment in 2024 has resulted in a loss of $ 5.8 billion at $ 5.8 billion.
The DOJ says the money recovered from the visit will be kept in return to the famous victims of the scammers. Especially the Pro -Crypto Trump administration had earlier said that the seized money that was not sent to the victims could be used to fund the US Cryptoconnery Reserve.
