The Ministry of Justice seeks to confiscate 225 million dollars linked to the fraud of the slaughter of encrypted pigs star-news.press/wp

The US Department of Justice has raised an enforceable procedure because it moves to the seizure of more than $ 225 million of cryptocurrencies associated with huge fraud for pigs.

On June 18, the US Public Prosecutor Office He said A civil complaint at the US Provincial Court of Colombia, seeking to obtain the confiscation of about $ 225.3 million, filed a wide -scale encrypted coding.

Tether helped freeze 225 million dollars

Most of the seized money, according to the Ministry of Justice, was in the rope (USDT).

Tether, US dollar -backed Stablecooin Source, Recognized Its cooperation with the authorities because it helped seize the assets. The investigation conducted by the US Secret Service and the Federal Investigation Office considered that millions of dollars in US dollars were the revenue of encrypted fraud.

The Ministry of Justice said that the funds were linked to the widespread swine seizure plan that targeted victims all over the world. The headlines of the seized assets were part of what officials described as the “complex Blockcha” money laundering network. “

Blockchain tools detection of a wide -ranging outline

The perpetrators of investment for encryption used a complex network of transactions in an attempt to cancel the flow of illegal funds.

However, the authorities have benefited from the Blockchain analysis tools to track transactions and link them to the fraudulent process. According to the Ministry of Justice, the fraudsters defrauded more than 400 victims worldwide.

“Under my leadership, with the support of President Trump and Public Prosecutor Bondi, the US Prosecutor’s Office in the province of Colombia plays a pioneering role in combating encrypted fraud, and in partnership with law enforcement throughout the country to seize the criminals’ funds and mix them from the hands of foreign criminals, all of whom with the approval of the United States.”

A report issued by the Internet Crime Complaints Center of the FBI indicated that investment fraud plans related to encryption witnessed reassuring victims of more than $ 5.8 billion in 2024.

A report of the FBI’s latest investigation in April 2025 put fraud in coding at more than $ 2024-with pig slaughtering plans that represent more than half of this number.

In May 2025, the US Treasury Department of the Foreign Asset Office approved control of Myanmar War and its militias on a set of crimes, including money laundering, human trafficking and fraud in pigs.