Bitcoin helps police to save a girl from darknet killer

The neutral nature of Bitcoin helped the enforcement agencies to uncover a doctor who was willing to kill own girlfriend. 

James Wan is a 54-year-old medical doctor and in April 2022 he used Bitcoin payment for a darknet order. Reportedly, this doctor paid Bitcoin to a darknet marketplace where killers accept money to kill people on behalf of order/demand.

Somehow, the FBI agency succeeded in catching the whole activity, done by that doctor through his mobile. Because of the decentralized & transparent network of the Bitcoin blockchain, the FBI agency successfully traced the doctor’s identity.

Court proceedings confirmed that it was this doctor & he ordered a darknet killer to kill his girlfriend & also asked the killer to show the murder game like a normal life accident. 

Before the execution of the murder game plan, the FBI agency successfully caught the doctor & cancelled that darknet order and saved the girl before any injury. 

As per evidence & investigation reports, the doctor provided almost every type of detail linked with her girlfriend e.g. Facebook account, vehicle number, mobile number, name, address, etc. 

James Wan, a 54-year-old medical doctor, pleaded guilty to paying a darknet killer in Bitcoin to murder his girlfriend. He transferred $8,000 worth of Bitcoins three times (to the wrong address once); due to the drop in Bitcoin prices, he transferred another $1,200 Bitcoins; then…

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Now the sentencing is scheduled for January 18, 2024, before the U.S. District Court Judge Leigh Martin May. 

These types of incidents show how Bitcoin helped to save that girl. There was a big possibility that the doctor could use cash to pay the killer for his order & possibly he could succeed in killing his girlfriend silently without knowing others. 

US government & Bitcoin 

In the past several years, the US enforcement agencies caught huge numbers of bad actors who used Bitcoin in illegal activities, thanks to Bitcoin’s decentralized & transparent nature.

In the present time, the US government is holding nearly $5.5 billion worth of Bitcoins, in total 200,000 Bitcoins. All these numbers of Bitcoin were detained by the different US agencies in different cases. 

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