Crypto Opinions & News Norway finds a way to Recover Crypto North Korea pinched in Axie Heist

[upnorth]

Content source

https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/17/norwegian_authorities_found_59_million/

Norwegian authorities announced on Thursday that they had recovered $5.9 million of cryptocurrency stolen in the Axie Infinity hack – an incident widely held to have been perpetrated by the Lazarus Group, which has links to North Korea.

The Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim) has called the seizure among the largest ever money seizures – and the largest-ever related to crypto – made by Norway. "Økokrim are experts at following the money. This case shows that we are also good at following the money on the blockchain even though criminals use advanced techniques to avoid detection," said senior public prosecutor Marianne Bender. The agency said it would work with the owner of the Axie Infinity game, Sky Mavis, to return the funds to its victims.

Norwegian police recover $5.9m crypto stolen by North Korea

Meanwhile South Korea's Do Kwon is sought for fraud by US authorities

www.theregister.com

 

[MuzzMelbourne]

Two options here... government's all over the World pony up some cash for Norway so they can expand the program for everyone's benefit... or, sit back and scratch our respective head's in wonderment.