Israel announces seizure of $1.5 million from crypto wallets tied to Iran

The Israeli Defense Ministry on Monday announced that it was order to seize the 77 crypto wallet included in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or IRGC.

In A document of the details of the seizure orderThe National Bureau (NBCTF) for Counter Terror Finishing (NBCTF) says “It is confirmed that cryptocurrency wallets are” IRGC property and “it is used for” deadly terrorist crime. “

The IRGC has been approved as a terrorist agency by the United States, the European Union and the Israel among other countries.

According to Blockchain Monitoring Farm Eliptic, the rename wallets received $ 1.5 billion in Tither’s Stabilkine USDT in time. Tom Robinson, co-founder and chief scientist of Eliptick, said companies could not confirm whether these wallets were really included in the IRGC. Robinson also said that the wallets currently keeps only $ 1.5 million, a fraction of the fund that has passed through them to today.

Israel’s Defense Ministry did not respond to Techchen’s request for comments, how it was able to establish the question that these 187 wallets were associated with the IRGC.

In Post a blogEliptic said “Some addresses can be controlled by cryptocurrency service and will be part of the wallet used to facilitate the transaction for many customers.”

Iran-centric non-profit digital rights and security director Amir Rashidi MaineIt is said that Israel was hacked in Iran’s infrastructure and found information about these wallets. Rashidi added that “there was always rumor that IRGC was using cryptocurrency to prevent restrictions.”

“And well, in many cases, exchanges may be involved in exchanges that are not directly part of the IRGC but are connected to it, like many banks, financial and credit organizations or even personal,” he said.

This is not for the first time not Israel or at least Israeli-connected groups, but Iran’s official cryptocurrency stash is targeting.

During the so -called twelve -day war between Israel and Iran, a hacking group in the hacking group was believed to be attached to Israel’s government that the hunter was known as Sparrow Iran’s Large Crypto Exchange has hacked NobitexThe Hackers stole about $ 90 worth of crypto, and then it sends it to the accessible wallet and “burns” the digital fund effectively.

Crypto intelligence agencies prefer Elliptical And TRM Labs Earlier said that Nobitex used the IRGC.