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The US Justice Department is trying to get back more than $150 million that was stolen from a Sony subsidiary and converted into digital currency.
The US Justice Department said in a Monday press release that a worker at Sony Life Insurance Company in Tokyo diverted funds to a personal account at a Southern California bank when the company was trying to transfer the funds between financial accounts.
The worker converted the money to the virtual currency, according to the release.
The funds were seized on December 1 after law enforcement from the US and Japan found a private key to the address that held the 3,879 bitcoins.
The US filed a civil forfeiture complaint in the Southern District of California to protect Sony's interest in the stolen property.
"Criminals need to know that they cannot rely on currency to hide their ill-gotten gains from law enforcement," the acting U.S. Attorney said in the statement.
The US was able to uncover the crime thanks to the assistance of Sony and Citibank, according to the Justice Department.
The US Justice Department is looking into other crimes. The agency announced last month that it would sell $56 million worth of seized digital currency from the BitConnect scheme, which cheated thousands of people out of $2 billion worth of digital currency.
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