BTC NEWS: BTC-E.com seized by US DoJ / FBI

in #crypto7 years ago (edited)

After Alexander Vinnik been arrested 4 days ago (July 25th) at Greece, BTC-e.com went down (also btc-e.nz) soon after it. 

Looks that real owners of BTC-e been warned and ready so 2h after BTC-E posted at twitter (https://twitter.com/btcecom) they re/moved more than 66000 btc at many different addresses to cover tracks!

(https://blockchain.info/address/19QzVvFZbHV4gcvmSYw3yup5RaBXgMeXay)


Yesterday, July 28th, U.S. Department of Justice together with other agencies including FBI seized domain BTC-e.com and probably also their accounts at financial institutions.

http://btc-e.com/   if you are not able to access domain directly because of security certificate issue use this link: http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://btc-e.com/index.html