Russian Authorities Handle Largest-Ever Crypto Corruption Seizure
TLDR
- Former Moscow investigator Marat Tambiev faces 16-year sentence over 1,032 Bitcoin bribe
- Russian authorities have begun converting seized cryptocurrency worth 1 billion rubles
- Tambiev accepted bribes from Infraud Organization to protect their criminal assets
- Two other officials involved – one sentenced to 9 years, another remains fugitive
- Further legal action targets additional assets including property and cryptocurrency
Russian bailiffs have initiated the process of converting 1,032 Bitcoin to state revenue, marking a new phase in a corruption case that shook Moscow’s law enforcement community. The cryptocurrency, valued at approximately one billion rubles, was seized from former chief investigator Marat Tambiev following his…
