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Somerset and Wiltshire pair jailed for £5.7m crypto scam

The cash included £551,000 in a suitcase, which was voluntarily handed over by Lee in January.

The pair carried out the fraud by replicating the website of cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com to access victims’ Bitcoin wallets, allowing them to steal their funds and login details.

A print of the 2003 Banksy work Bomb Love worth £60,000, alongside cash totalling £835,000, £64,000 worth of cryptocurrency and three cars were all confiscated by police.

A confiscation order for nearly £1million was made against Lee, which will be used to compensate the victims.

Proceedings related to a similar order – which force criminals to hand over available money and assets, or have time added to their prison sentence – for Heppel are underway.


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