U.S. prosecutors announced the largest-ever seizure of Crypto Assets, with a total value of $225 million.

According to Gate News bot and a report from the well-known financial blog ZeroHedge, acting U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro ( stated that her office has seized over $225.3 million in crypto assets related to a massive international fraud and money laundering network that deceived hundreds of victims through online investment scams.

The goal of this operation is to combat the proceeds of large-scale international fraud activities related to human trafficking networks associated with organized crime groups and individuals operating in scam locations in Southeast Asia.

Shawn Bradstreet, an agent from the United States Secret Service San Francisco Field Office, stated that the seized item worth $225.3 million is currently held by the U.S. Marshals Service and is the "largest crypto assets seizure in the history of the United States Secret Service."

According to the indictment, the U.S. Secret Service and the FBI used blockchain analysis to trace a complex Money Laundering network involving over 144 Crypto Assets trading accounts, 263,000 transactions, and more than 3 billion dollars in digital currency.

Funds are transferred through layers of intermediaries to disguise their origin, with evidence indicating that these funds come from scam centers operating by exploiting labor trafficking.

These scams often involve criminals deceiving victims into transferring money for so-called investments, usually in the form of Crypto Assets, but ultimately it is a fraudulent act.

A notable case mentioned in the indictment involves the CEO of a bank in Kansas, who was persuaded by fraudsters to embezzle $47 million from the bank through a crypto assets scam, investing in a fraudulent encryption platform, after which the criminals used the platform to defraud him of the embezzled funds.

In another case, a victim from Texas was persuaded to invest in a platform and lost 7 million dollars, but when he tried to withdraw his funds, he realized it was a fraudulent platform. Over 430 people became victims of the fraud detailed in the complaints.

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