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"An investigation is still underway and no charges have yet been filed, police said." Whoa. > "The seizure came after the "accused voluntarily transferred" th

"An investigation is still underway and no charges have yet been filed, police said." Whoa. > "The seizure came after the "accused voluntarily transferred" the bitcoins to an official wallet of the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA), police added in a statement." What are the odds this was a trade - "give us the coins or we proceed/extradite you to somewhere else"?

jandrese 3y ago
From a service that was taken down in 2013? That's a hell of a long time to build a case.
- junto 3y ago
  It’s a very weird case. They were sitting on this amount of money for over ten years and couldn’t spend it without leaving a paper trail, and Germans are pretty good at paper trails. It’s “taxes, taxes and taxes” rather than “death and taxes” here. Personally I would have hosted a German only reverse lottery, where the bitcoins would be divided up between every person that submitted their wallet address and proof of one entry per person with a German identity card. Boom, mass traction of bitcoin in Germany, and you’re god damn Robin Hood. No way the state is going to force millions of people to pay it back.
junto 3y ago
German nationals can’t be extradited to non-EU countries and if they would be, they still serve their sentence in Germany. Article 16(2) of the German Constitution, 2(3) AICCM Under the TCA, Germany has made the respective notification under article LAW.SURR.83(2)/article Law.Other. 134(1) (now articles 603, 690) that it will not surrender its own nationals. Accusation warrants: Germans can be extradited, but only to EU member states and only under the condition that after their conviction, they will be transferred back to Germany to serve the sentence there. Conviction warrants: German citizens can only be extradited if they consent (section 80, AICCM)

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"An investigation is still underway and no charges have yet been filed, police said." Whoa. > "The seizure came after the "accused voluntarily transferred" th

by caseysoftware 3y ago

jandrese 3y ago
From a service that was taken down in 2013? That's a hell of a long time to build a case.
- junto 3y ago
  It’s a very weird case. They were sitting on this amount of money for over ten years and couldn’t spend it without leaving a paper trail, and Germans are pretty good at paper trails. It’s “taxes, taxes and taxes” rather than “death and taxes” here. Personally I would have hosted a German only reverse lottery, where the bitcoins would be divided up between every person that submitted their wallet address and proof of one entry per person with a German identity card. Boom, mass traction of bitcoin in Germany, and you’re god damn Robin Hood. No way the state is going to force millions of people to pay it back.
junto 3y ago
German nationals can’t be extradited to non-EU countries and if they would be, they still serve their sentence in Germany. Article 16(2) of the German Constitution, 2(3) AICCM Under the TCA, Germany has made the respective notification under article LAW.SURR.83(2)/article Law.Other. 134(1) (now articles 603, 690) that it will not surrender its own nationals. Accusation warrants: Germans can be extradited, but only to EU member states and only under the condition that after their conviction, they will be transferred back to Germany to serve the sentence there. Conviction warrants: German citizens can only be extradited if they consent (section 80, AICCM)