Unknown persons moved ~4800 BTC ($144 million) from the darknet marketplace Abraxas, whose team carried out an exit scam in November 2015. On-chain detective ZachXBT drew attention to this.
An entity moved ~4800 BTC ($144M) originating from Abraxas darknet market which exit scammed in Nov 2015 after previously sitting dormant.
They consolidated funds and also deposited to a bitcoin mixer.
This graph shows an example of the movements from one of the addresses. pic.twitter.com/zVBSs6mrc4
— ZachXBT (@zachxbt) October 23, 2023
The expert noted that the funds that began to move almost eight years later began to accumulate in several wallets. Some were sent to mixing services for laundering.
According to ZachXBT, former platform administrators are behind the transactions, since most of the assets arrived at the addresses at the time the fraudulent scheme was implemented.
Some commentators agreed with his assumptions, recalling that at least one scammer had recently been released from prison.
ZachXBT emphasized that unknown people are not trying to sell cryptocurrency – they are trying to “whiten” assets, conducting operations as inconspicuously as possible.
In July, US authorities again began moving bitcoins confiscated from the darknet marketplace Silk Road in November 2020.
In early October, site founder Ross Ulbricht served in prison the first decade of two life sentences to which he was sentenced in 2015.
Source: Cryptocurrency
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