It was confirmed that the prosecution recently sold 12 billion won worth of bitcoin, which was confiscated as criminal proceeds from the operator of a pornographic site called the'Second Soranet,' through a private exchange, and for the first time belonged to the national treasury.
The prosecution, which had been storing the bitcoin for more than three years after seizure due to no related laws, came into force on the 25th of last month, as amendments to the Act on Reporting and Use of Specific Financial Transaction Information Recognizing Virtual Currency as an Asset (Specific Financial Information Act) I took this action.
In line with the enforcement date of the law, the prosecution disposes of bitcoins for an average of 64.2 million won per piece, and the price of bitcoins steadily rose even in the first few days, surpassing the record high of 72 million won in the morning of today (1st).
Suwon district prosecutors sold 191 bitcoins confiscated from Ahn Mo, the operator of AVSNOOP, an obscene material site discovered in 2017, for an average of 66.26 million won per private exchange. He said he belonged to.
This is the first time that bitcoin, a cryptocurrency, has been confiscated and returned to the national treasury.
Earlier, the Supreme Court sentenced Ahn's appeal in May 2018 to one year and June in prison, and confiscated 191 bitcoins out of the 216 bitcoins confiscated by the prosecution and confiscated.