La polizia di Lancashire riceve £ 500.000 di manna dal bitcoin sequestrato
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w802wg155o
di BlueOrCrimson
La polizia di Lancashire riceve £ 500.000 di manna dal bitcoin sequestrato
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w802wg155o
di BlueOrCrimson
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>Before the original sum could be returned to the victim, the cryptocurrency had continued to rise in value. A force spokesman said because the law forbade paying victims more than had been stolen from them
Seems… deeply unfair? Imagine if you had any other asset stolen, and the value went up in the meantime before it could be returned to you. You would still fully expect to be entitled to all of your asset!
Edit: “sir, as you know, the classic car market is booming. Your car doubled in value in the time it took us to return it. Therefore, here is half your car back. Enjoy!”
So the police profited from crime the if the bitcoin was seized? Isn’t this an obvious crime in itself?! What fucking moron things this is acceptable?
Sweet. Will we see Lancs Police driving around in Ferraris like Crockett and Tubbs ?
For people who can’t be arsed to read cash was taken and used to purchase BTC. The BTC was then seized and the original loss amount was returned.
A moral issue perhaps but not really a legal one.
In reality this isn’t any different to the banks using your crappy savings account to give you low interest while they are making way more with it.
So police profited from the proceeds of crime? Interesting