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Crown Prosecution Service is coming for crooks' cryptocurrency

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>So what happens if they get a confiscation order for some bitcoin the day after they are sold to, let's say, a pension fund?

Not how it works - in the Surrey case the Bitcoin had already been seized and transferred to a police wallet - then there was a hearing to determine if they would be confiscated or returned.

[Crim in question had done an Eccles with his recovery phrase]

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