Russian traffic police stole Bitcoin worth hundreds of thousands of dollars through violent evidence collection, sentenced to 7 years

On December 27, a traffic police officer in Ufa, Russia, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for stealing approximately 20 million rubles (equivalent to hundreds of thousands of dollars) in Bitcoin. The case dates back to 2022, when the officer illegally obtained access to the mobile phones of two detainees while handling a case, transferring BTC through messaging applications and cryptocurrency wallets, accompanied by violent evidence collection. The court sentenced him to 7 years in a normal security prison, ordered him to compensate the victims approximately 20 million rubles, and stripped him of his police rank. (Bits.media)$BTC