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On the time of his sentencing two years in the past, the person had 36 BTC valued at roughly 1.3m Swedish Kronor (100,000), which he brazenly admitted to the court docket had been earned by means of unlawful on-line gross sales.
The prosecutor on the case, Tove Kullberg then efficiently satisfied the court docket that your entire cryptocurrency stash needs to be confiscated.
Nevertheless, by the point that the Swedish Enforcement Authority obtained round to auctioning off the 36 BTC, the highest coin had appreciated ten occasions its unique worth.
This implies the federal government would want to solely public sale round 3 BTC to cowl the quantity demanded by the prosecution and return the remaining 33 BTC (at the moment price $1.6M) to the proprietor.
 
 
Case Necessitates Extra Crypto Authorized Provisions And Training
Chatting with Swedish Radio, Kullberg mentioned that the case has turned out unlucky in some ways and has led to penalties that she couldn’t foresee on the time.
She identified that for the reason that case was the primary crypto-related seizure in Swedish authorized historical past, the court docket had no established precedent on easy methods to cope with bitcoin income on the time.
Kullberg recommended that the prosecution ought to now take into consideration rising and refining its provision for cryptocurrencies, as adoption continues to rise.
“I believe we should always in all probability spend money on inside training within the authority, as cryptocurrency can be an element we’ll be coping with to a a lot larger extent that we’re in the present day. The extra we improve the extent of information throughout the group, the less errors we’ll make.”
Lesson Learnt
Kullberg mentioned that the distinctive case has however offered an vital lesson to the Swedish authorized system concerning the valuation of cryptocurrencies towards fiat.
“The lesson to be realized from that is to maintain the worth in bitcoin, that the revenue from the crime needs to be 36 bitcoin, no matter what worth the bitcoin has on the time.”
