{"id":64709,"date":"2022-07-21T15:44:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-21T12:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=64709"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T12:54:09","slug":"finnish-customs-sell-bitcoin-worth-e46-5-million-proceeds-to-aid-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/finnish-customs-sell-bitcoin-worth-e46-5-million-proceeds-to-aid-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Customs sell Bitcoin worth \u20ac46.5 million; proceeds to aid Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Finnish Customs sold 1,889 BTC seized in investigations linked to drug-related crimes.<\/p>\n<p>As stated in the <a href=\"https:\/\/tulli.fi\/en\/-\/finnish-customs-sold-its-legally-forfeited-cryptocurrencies\">\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441-\u0440\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0435<\/a>, the state received about \u20ac46.5 million from the sale of the cryptocurrencies. The sale was handled by two digital asset service providers.<\/p>\n<p>The customs also hold around 90 BTC awaiting a further court decision. The agency has also frozen other cryptocurrencies, but did not disclose details due to the ongoing preliminary investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier it was reported that Finnish authorities would transfer the proceeds from the sale of the seized bitcoins as aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the customs said <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/105638\/finnish-customs-sells-off-47-million-in-seized-bitcoin-will-donate-proceeds-to-ukraine\">Decrypt<\/a>, that, according to their information, the proceeds from the sale of the cryptocurrencies will indeed be transferred to Ukraine \u2014 this has already been approved by the country&#8217;s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\"\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finnish Customs sold 1,889 BTC seized in investigations linked to drug-related crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[316,1172,16],"class_list":["post-64709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-finland","tag-seized-bitcoins","tag-ukraine"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64709","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=64709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64711,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64709\/revisions\/64711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}