{"id":20155,"date":"2025-01-09T12:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-to-seize-record-bitcoin-bribe-of-1bn-rubles-for-state-coffers\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T12:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T10:32:08","slug":"russia-to-seize-record-bitcoin-bribe-of-1bn-rubles-for-state-coffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/russia-to-seize-record-bitcoin-bribe-of-1bn-rubles-for-state-coffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia to seize record bitcoin bribe of 1bn rubles for state coffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of enforcement proceedings, bailiffs have begun transferring 1,032.1 BTC\u2014valued at more than 1bn rubles at the time of the offence\u2014seized from convicted former investigator Marat Tambiev in a record-bribe case to the state, <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.ru\/ekonomika\/22838915\">TASS<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The funds will be moved from a Ledger Nano X hardware wallet to a government account.<\/p>\n<p>At the prosecution\u2019s request, Tambiev\u2019s property has also been frozen for confiscation, as he could not prove its lawful origin. The assets include a Honda motorcycle, several properties in the Moscow region and bitcoins worth several million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>The former investigator must also pay enforcement charges of 15,000 rubles.<\/p>\n<p>He was detained in spring 2022, when he headed the Investigative Committee\u2019s unit for Moscow\u2019s Tverskoy district. According to investigators, he received more than 2,718 BTC (7.3bn rubles at the time) and $1.5m from members of the hacker group Infraud Organization in exchange for not seizing their assets.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2024, he was sentenced <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/former-investigator-sentenced-to-16-years-for-record-bitcoin-bribe\">to 16 years in prison<\/a> and fined 500m rubles.<\/p>\n<p>His former subordinate <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/case-of-2718-btc-bribery-reaches-moscow-region-court\">Kristina Lyakhovenko<\/a> was sentenced to nine years in prison for accepting a bribe, abuse of office and document forgery. A third defendant\u2014the former deputy head of the Investigative Committee\u2019s unit for the Tverskoy district, Dmitry Gubin\u2014has been arrested in absentia. He is believed to have fled abroad.<\/p>\n<p>According to testimony from group member Mark Bergman, the actual bribe demanded by Tambiev totalled 2,718.6 BTC. Lawyer Vadim Bagaturia says 654 BTC \u201cdisappeared\u201d from the case file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of enforcement proceedings, bailiffs have begun transferring 1,032.1 BTC\u2014valued at more than 1bn rubles at the time of the offence\u2014seized from convicted former investigator Marat Tambiev in a record-bribe case to the state, TASS reported. The funds will be moved from a Ledger Nano X hardware wallet to a government account. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[137,1162,1154,1444,27,1172],"class_list":["post-20155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-corruption","tag-court-cases","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement","tag-russia","tag-seized-bitcoins"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"54","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}