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About $1 million in digital assets is the number this case turns on. A former FBI supervisory agent entered a guilty plea admitting to stealing that amount from an adversarial country.
The government secured approximately $925,000 in forfeitures, with those funds transferred to government-controlled wallets. The recovery math Stolen: approximately $1 million.
Forfeited to government wallets: approximately $925,000. The spread between those two figures is roughly $75,000.
The public disclosure does not explain whether that gap reflects assets still outstanding, price movement between theft and forfeiture, or costs associated with moving funds into government custody.
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