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Irish authorities have recovered an additional 500 bitcoin from a cache connected to Clifton Collins, a drug offender whose cryptocurrency holdings have drawn sustained attention from law-enforcement and on-chain analysts alike.
On-chain data provider Arkham Intelligence now shows wallets it has tagged "Clifton Collins" holding roughly 4,500 BTC in aggregate.
What the On-Chain Picture Shows Arkham Intelligence's tagging system — which attributes blockchain addresses to known entities based on transaction clustering and investigative data — places approximately 4,500 BTC across wallets linked to Collins.
The freshly recovered 500 BTC represents another tranche extracted from what investigators have described as a lost stash, meaning coins that were not immediately accessible to authorities at the time of the original case.
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