{"id":48344,"date":"2021-08-26T16:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T13:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=48344"},"modified":"2025-09-02T01:45:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:45:17","slug":"brazilian-police-seize-28-7-million-in-cryptocurrency-in-kryptos-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/brazilian-police-seize-28-7-million-in-cryptocurrency-in-kryptos-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian police seize $28.7 million in cryptocurrency in Kryptos operation"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Police of Brazil seized cryptocurrency worth 150 million Brazilian reais ($28.7 million) during operation Kryptos, linked to an alleged pyramid scheme. CNN Brazil reports.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officers have detained five people. In addition to the digital assets, police recovered $3.6 million in cash, 21 premium cars and various pieces of jewellery.<\/p>\n

According to investigators, the organiser of the scheme was one of the detainees, Glaidson Ac\u00e1cio. The owner of a consulting business in the digital assets space in Rio de Janeiro offered clients yields of up to 15% per year. He is charged with moving billions of reais of client funds.<\/p>\n

Earlier in July, the Federal Police of Brazil liquidated<\/a> Bitcoin Banco Group, whose actions caused losses of more than $300 million to about 7,000 people. Its leader Cl\u00e1udio Oliveira, known as the "King of Bitcoins", was arrested.<\/p>\n

Earlier, former Brazilian Manchester United midfielder Anderson (Anderson Lu\u00eds de Abreu Oliveira) became a suspect in<\/a> a case of theft and money laundering through cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

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The Brazilian Federal Police seized cryptocurrency worth 150 million reais ($28.7 million) during Operation Kryptos, linked to an alleged pyramid scheme, CNN Brazil reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48345,"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":[1437,1154,1444,1163],"class_list":["post-48344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-brazil","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement","tag-ponzi-schemes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"26","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344","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=48344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48346,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48344\/revisions\/48346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}