The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has made its largest ever seizure of cryptocurrency after tracing the proceeds of a sophisticated wire fraud to a circuit board hidden in a popcorn tin. The $3.36bn haul is the second largest financial seizure of any kind made by the DOJ.
The proceeds
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