{"id":47988,"date":"2021-08-20T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T08:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=47988"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:01:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:01:59","slug":"australian-police-seize-countrys-largest-ever-cryptocurrency-haul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/australian-police-seize-countrys-largest-ever-cryptocurrency-haul\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian police seize country\u2019s largest-ever cryptocurrency haul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Police, as part of an investigation into drug trafficking via the dark web, have seized a record amount of cryptocurrency for the country. The Canberra Times reports.<\/p>\n<p>The officers conducted six searches and arrested two suspects, seizing drugs, real estate, cash and vehicles. They seized AUD 8.5 million in cryptocurrency (about $6 million), and also froze bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say they identified the suspects in drug trafficking using information obtained from the takedown of the Silk Road dark web marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, U.S. authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/u-s-authorities-seize-silk-road%e2%80%91linked-bitcoin-worth-more-than-1-billion-69370-btc\">confiscated 69,370 BTC<\/a> linked to Silk Road.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria Police, as part of an investigation into drug trafficking via the dark web, seized a record amount of cryptocurrency for the country. The Canberra Times reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[108,1153],"class_list":["post-47988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-australia","tag-confiscation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47990,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47988\/revisions\/47990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}