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    <p>Police in <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Scotland" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/scotland.html">Scotland</a> have admitted that $200,000 in <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="stolen" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/stolen.html">stolen</a> <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="bitcoin" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/bitcoin.html">bitcoin</a> will likely never be recovered following a robbery involving a weaponized Toblerone and a machete. In addition, one of the raided victims has been accused of taking part in online fraud.&nbsp;</p>
    <p>In 2020, bitcoin then worth $200,000 was forcibly transferred to a crypto wallet by three masked individuals in a Scottish home raid. The three reportedly brandished a machete and used a large personalized Toblerone to beat one of the victims over the head.&nbsp;</p>
    <p>Police <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="track" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/track.html">track</a>ed the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="stolen" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/stolen.html">stolen</a> crypto to the wallet of 29-year-old Lanarkshire man John-Ross Rennie, in what was described as the first case of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="bitcoin" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/bitcoin.html">bitcoin</a> robbery to involve tracing in <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="Scotland" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/scotland.html">Scotland</a>. However, despite <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="track" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/track.html">track</a>ing the crypto to Rennie, police say they haven’t been able to seize the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" title="stolen" href="https://thebittimes.com/tag/stolen.html">stolen</a> funds.</p>
    <p>As reported by Glasgow Live, Detective Inspector Craig Potter said siezure “relies on the funds being there and being able to access them. In this case by the time we got to Mr Rennie the funds were long gone, they’d been moved out.”</p>
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    <p><em>Read more:&nbsp;20-year-old imprisoned for $1M crypto SIM-swap scam</em></p>
    <p>Two men and women were reportedly victims of the robbery. One of the victims is reportedly now facing legal action for their alleged involvement in online fraud.&nbsp;</p>
    <p>Rennie was convicted on the charge of reset last week; the act of knowingly possessing criminally obtained goods. He was not present for the robbery and insisted he had no knowledge of the raid. The three masked individuals involved in the raid are yet to be caught.&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Source: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://thebittimes.com/scotland-s-first-case-tracking-stolen-bitcoin-hits-dead-end-tbt69225.html">https://thebittimes.com/scotland-s-first-case-tracking-stolen-bitcoin-hits-dead-end-tbt69225.html</a></p>

Scotland's first case tracking stolen bitcoin hits dead end

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