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Russian bailiffs are in the process of transferring Bitcoin from Marat Tambiyev to state revenue. The incident involved the confiscation of 1,032.1 BTC, making it a major crypto bribery scandal in Russia.
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Russian bailiffs are liquidating more than 1,032 bitcoins worth about 1 billion rubles seized from Marat Tambiyev, a former Russian Investigative Committee investigator convicted in a high-profile crypto bribery case. TASS reported on Thursday.
Tambiyev, who previously served as chief investigator in Moscow’s Tver district, was found guilty of accepting 1,032 BTC in bribes to protect the interests of the Infraud Organization, a hacker group he was investigating.
The former agent was accused of negotiating deals with members of the group and receiving Bitcoin in exchange for not confiscating illegally acquired assets.
During a raid on Tanbiev’s apartment in Moscow, authorities discovered a stash of bitcoins stored on Tanbiev’s computer and device, a Ledger Nano-X hardware wallet. Bitcoin was then seized in 2023 as part of a ruling by Moscow’s Nikulinsky court.
Last October, Tambiyev was sentenced to 16 years in prison and fined 500 million rubles (about $5.2 million) for his actions. He was also stripped of his titles and barred from holding any government office for 12 years after his release.
His former subordinate Kristina Lyakhovenko was sentenced to nine years in a general regime penal colony on charges including bribery. The third defendant, former deputy head of the Tverskoy district investigation department Dmitry Gubin, remains at large.
In addition to the Bitcoins already seized, the Attorney General’s Office is filing a separate lawsuit to seize more property, including a motorbike, real estate, and additional Bitcoins that Tambiev appears to have acquired through illegal means, TASS reported. woke up.
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