Authorities in Sweden have reportedly returned approximately $1.3 million worth of Bitcoin to a jailed drug dealer who amassed the funds in illegal online sales.
Following the drug dealer’s arrest, the Swedish Enforcement Authority began auctioning off the 36 Bitcoin that had been amassed at the time.
However, the value of the stolen cryptocurrency has since appreciated to a point where only 3 Bitcoin were auctioned to match the fiat value of the stolen Bitcoin’s value at the time of the illegal sales.
As a result, the remaining 33 Bitcoin—which is comfortably worth over $1 million today—has been returned to the drug dealer.
“It is unfortunate in many ways. It has led to consequences I was not able to foresee at the time,” prosecutor Tove Kullberg reportedly told Swedish radio. She added that there is a lesson to be learned with regard to future cryptocurrency-related crimes.
“The lesson to be learned from this is to keep the value in Bitcoin, that the profit from
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