a fragment of a court document showing that 1,032 BTC were confiscated, with partially redacted blockchain addresses.
Just three months after the hackers’ arrests, Tambiev himself was arrested for bribery, and his laptop with bitcoin was confiscated.The story from the hackers’ perspective is more detailed. Two days after the hackers were arrested, according to the transcript from Konstantin Bergman’s interrogation, their attorney passed along an offer from Tambiev that if they agreed to give him half of the bitcoins they possessed, he would return the rest to them.
In March 2022, Tambiev was arrested, and his apartment in Moscow was searched. On his MacBook, Tambiev’s colleagues found a file titled “Retirement,” with photos of hand-written notes that contained seed phrases for two wallets.