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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

FBI arrests crypto thief accused of stealing $46 million from seized government wallets — Suspect's father was allegedly contractor for the US Marshals

A thief fishing for crypto from a phone screen.

The FBI has just arrested John Daghita, the lead suspect in a major crypto theft case tied to the U.S. government, where the perpetrator allegedly siphoned $46 million worth of cryptocurrency from state-owned wallets into his own accounts. The accused was taken into custody with the help of local French authorities in Saint Martin, an island in the northeast Caribbean, as confirmed by FBI director Kash Patel.

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