The National Asset Recovery Agency (ARMA) was handed over 50 million hryvnias and 830 kg of silver, seized from suspects in cryptocurrency market fraud. сообщает the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine.
The Darnytskyi District Prosecutor’s Office of Kyiv, with the participation of СБУ, is conducting a criminal proceeding into the unlawful use by a group of individuals of resources for the exchange of electronic funds.
According to investigators, the suspects helped users from the Russian Federation and the so-called L/DNR to convert cash and cashless funds into cryptocurrencies without paying taxes and for subsequent laundering.
Investigators conducted searches, seizing 830 kg of bank silver bars and about 50 million hryvnias in various currencies — €850,000, $470,000 and ₴460,000 — on which a seizure was subsequently imposed.
Additionally, at the prosecutor’s request, six land plots totaling more than 6 hectares and three apartments totaling 380 sq m were arrested, belonging to the suspects. The real estate has also been transferred to ARMA.
The total value of the seized property exceeds 100 million hryvnias.
Earlier in January, in Kropyvnytskyi, seized an unspecified amount of mining equipment from premises belonging to the Mining Express data centre.
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