Ukraine has transferred more than $8.3 million in seized USDT to its asset recovery agency, marking the country’s first such handover of cryptocurrency. The assets remain in custody and cannot be formally confiscated without a conviction.
Ukraine has transferred more than $8.3 million in seized USDT to its asset recovery agency, marking the country’s first such handover of cryptocurrency. The assets remain in custody and cannot be formally confiscated without a conviction.
The transfer gives Ukraine’s asset recovery system direct responsibility for cryptocurrency while lawmakers consider establishing a national crypto reserve. It also demonstrates how digital assets seized in criminal investigations can be held by the state alongside property such as homes, vehicles and cash.
Ukraine has transferred more than $8.3 million in seized USDT into state management for the first time, according to the country’s Prosecutor General’s Office. The stablecoins were sent under a court order to a wallet controlled by the National Agency for Finding, Tracing and Management of Assets, known as ARMA.
The transfer gives Ukraine’s asset recovery system direct responsibility for cryptocurrency while lawmakers consider establishing a national crypto reserve. It also demonstrates how digital assets seized in criminal investigations can be held by the state alongside property such as homes, vehicles and cash.
The funds remain seized rather than formally confiscated. ARMA controls the wallet and is responsible for custody, but ownership cannot pass to the state unless the case results in a conviction.
Authorities linked the USDT to a member of an alleged international hacking group accused of stealing private data, demanding ransoms and laundering proceeds in Ukraine through real estate, vehicles and other high-value assets. Four suspects, including the alleged organizer, have been detained and remain in custody, but none has been convicted.
Investigators estimate that the group caused more than $100 million in damage. Authorities have seized over $11.1 million in assets during the investigation, including property, cars, $1 million in cash and the cryptocurrency now managed by ARMA.
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