The SBU seized bitcoins founder has a blog about cryptocurrency
Security forces suspect the resource ForkLog help criminals when exchanging cryptocurrency to hryvnia
On the morning of Friday, December 15, in Odessa in a rented apartment of the founder of one of the largest Russian-language blogs about cryptocurrencies and the blockchain ForkLog Anatoly Kaplan employees of the security Service of Ukraine conducted a search. This was reported on the newspaper’s website.
The reason for the search was a criminal proceeding against a group of persons from the United States and Ukraine, which, according to the investigation, developed a criminal scheme to seize cash from the cardholder by third parties.
As stated by the SBU suspects, they carried out an “exchange of cryptocurrency “Bitcoin” on the Ukrainian hryvnia with the help of the Internet resource “Forcelog”.
But in the edition claim that this information by itself is not true because the functionality of enabling such exchange, on the website is missing, and no such “help” ForkLog never had.
In addition, the newspaper notes, none of these document individuals not associated with the activities ForkLog, nor with its founder, and no evidence to the contrary, the investigators allegedly did not provide.
During the search, the SBU seized several of the devices stored on them cryptocurrency, laptop and other personal items Kaplan. This is one of the SBU allegedly attempted to withdraw bitcoins to your wallet directly during a search, that the lawyer Kaplan called the police and reported the alleged robbery and called the outfit. After that, attempts to bring bitcoins stopped.
“But the next day after a search with Ethereum cryptocurrency wallet, which belonged to Kaplan, to the newly created wallet was transferred all the coins ETH”, – stated in the message.
Recall, the market capitalization of cryptocurrencies exceeded $500 billion.