Prosecutors say the Bitcoin trail later pointed to the suspect’s brother, according to the source’s account of the case.
The source describes a case in which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) (U.S. federal law enforcement agency) seized more than 700 Bitcoin linked to a darknet crypto mixer, but the cryptocurrency later disappeared. Prosecutors reportedly traced the subsequent movement of the funds to the suspect’s brother. The account presents the incident as an unusual case in crypto-related law enforcement, where control of seized digital assets appears to have been compromised after confiscation.