US authorities seized another 29655 bitcoins ($ 28 million) from Silk Road servers

Today, information appeared on the already forgotten resource Silk Road, whose servers were seized back in October last year, and the owner was convicted. So, the US authorities managed to get to one more wallet, which worked with the operations of clients of Silk Road. The amount stored on this wallet was very large: at the current exchange rate, there were $ 28 million (29,655 bitcoins) stored on the wallet.

The US authorities managed to get to this wallet due to a detailed study of previously withdrawn servers (well, and probably, thanks to a no less detailed work with Ross Ulbricht).
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Among other things, the authorities stressed that the withdrawn cryptocurrency is considered in the case as any other currency that was received as part of illegal operations.

Previously, almost immediately after the arrest of the Silk Road servers, quite a few bitcoins were also seized. Currently, the total amount of cryptocurrency seized in the Silk Road case is estimated at US $ 130 million (due to an increase in the cryptocurrency rate).

Interestingly, Ross Ulbricht protested the withdrawal of Bitcoins, claiming that it was his personal equipment and personal funds.

Via theverge