TechFlow News, January 10 — According to Cryptonews, the Russian Ministry of Finance has begun disposing of Bitcoin assets seized during the investigation into the Infraud hacking group. As reported by Russian state news agency TASS, the first batch to be liquidated consists of approximately $10 million worth of Bitcoin assets confiscated from Marat Tambiev, a former investigator with the Investigative Committee.
Tambiev was sentenced in 2023 to 16 years in prison for accepting bribes from the hacking group. The case involved a total of 1,032.1 BTC. However, since Tambiev distributed the Bitcoin across multiple storage locations, law enforcement must obtain separate court rulings for each wallet. The first batch of assets to be liquidated is stored in a Ledger Nano X hardware wallet. In addition, prosecutors plan to sell real estate in the Moscow region and a Honda motorcycle owned by him.
Notably, between 2020 and 2022, Tambiev accepted Bitcoin bribes on multiple occasions, aiding the hacker group in transferring approximately 13.7 billion rubles (about $137 million) worth of crypto assets. Two other individuals were implicated in the case—one received a nine-year prison sentence, while the other remains at large.
