Israel announces the confiscation of $ 1.5 million from the encryption governor linked to Iran

The Israeli Ministry of Defense announced on Monday that it was requesting the seizure of 187 encryption wallets, which are claimed to belong to the Iranian Islamic Guard, or IRGC.

in A document that explains in detail the seizure orderThe National Office of the Ministry of Terrorism (NBCTF) said that it is “convinced that the coded currency governor” in the list is the property of IRGC and “used to commit a severe terrorist crime.”

IRGC is punished as a terrorist organization by the United States, the European Union and Israel, among other countries.

According to Blockchain Monitoring Company, the portfolio called $ 1.5 billion over time in Tether’s Stablecoin Usdt. Tom Robinson, co -founder of Eliptic, said the company cannot confirm whether this portfolio already belongs to IRGC. Robinson also said that the governor currently contains only $ 1.5 million, which is a small part of the money that has moved to today.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense did not respond to the TECHRUNCH request for comment, and asking how it was able to prove that these 187 portfolios are linked to IRGC.

in Blog postAl -Alailji said that “some headlines may be controlled by cryptocurrency services and can be part of the infrastructure of the portfolio used to facilitate transactions for many customers.”

Amir Rashidi, Director of Digital Rights and Security in Non -profit organizations that focus on Iran Mian GroupShe said that Israel could have found information about this governor by penetrating Iran’s infrastructure. “There were always rumors that IRGC was using the cryptocurrency to circumvent the sanctions.”

He said: “Many of these cases may include, for example, exchanges are not a direct part of IRGC but are linked to them, similar to many banks and financial and credit institutions or even companies that seem to be private.”

This is not the first time that Israel has targeted, or at least Israeli alignment groups, to maliciously the Iranian government.

On June 18, during the so -called twelve days between Israel and Iran, a group of piracy, called Predatory Sparrow, it is believed to have links to the government of Israel Horrown of the largest encryption exchange in Iran. The infiltrators stole about 90 million dollars from encryption and then “burned” by sending them to an indelible port, which effectively destroys digital money.

Curd intelligence companies like elliptical and TRM Laboratory He already said that Nobitex was used by IRGC.