Confusion and Missing BTC After a Russian Officer Is Caught Extorting Crypto Hackers

Another bitcoin wallet, which received 1,032 BTC at the same time as the arrested wallets, remained inactive until Dec. 6, 2022. The remainder of the bribe money that the hackers said they gave Tambiev may have been stored in a third wallet with 654.1 BTC in it, according to Crystal. During 2022, most of those funds moved to centralized crypto exchanges, namely, Huobi, WhiteBit and a little-known Estonia-registered exchange Bitexbit, Crystal’s data show.