I’m not so sure. Maybe I’m giving DoubleN too much credit, but if I had a billion Dollars in Bitcoin and a year with nothing to do, but think about the future, I would have carefully squirreled away little stacks of crypto in a hundred different wallets in at least the top 10 Crypto currencies and stable coins. I would have the seed phrases to those wallets hidden in the most obscure places I could think of. Maybe giving one or two to trusted family members, to help support me in prison. He had to know that he was going to get caught eventually.
Even if the Brazilians have access to phones, it is a stretch to expect anybody to remember a 12 word recovery phrase, especially while you’re breaking his fingers. Restoring a wallet, is not as easy as just forcing someone to give you his spending password.
The question is not if he got crypto but how much.
Imagine being locked up in prison and the prisoners know of your story.
Do you think he is going to leave that prison with
A. All his fingers and toes in tact and no crypto forced out of him.
B. All his fingers and toes ripped off as they force him to deliver more and more of his stash.
C. none of the above.
He would either need to ask for isolation while detained or hope to dear god that no one in there have any clue who he is.
He is far from a mastermind, he was using online wallet services during the MTI saga so I have no doubt he is probably using something at minimum like blockchain.com wallet or something similar. In fact at one point he was moving funds for users directly from exchanges he used to store the user deposits. They used this system for a very long time until users started to point out that they keep reusing the same wallet address for all clients to deposit which lead to their infamous deposit system where you had to update your deposit page with the tx id of the deposit and so many people exploited this using tx id of other deposits on the same reused wallet.
He might have some of his stash completely offline on some random encrypted wallet but really he is not that bright. The only reason MTI worked is because it had Cheri and co in charge of recruiting, without them Johann would have had nothing to steal.
He is borderline retrded and a terrible snakeoil salesmen , that is why he only started to show his head when the entire ponzi started to collapse and I recon that is part of Cheri and Co strategy to calm the users.
The only reason I want to see him extradited somewhere that will actually pressure him enough to do some sort of plea bargain to put Cheri and Co finally on the radar properly. Provide the prosecutor with all the evidence he got about the involvement of Cheri and Co so that at best he would get a lesser sentence but that is worth it if we can see Cheri and Co in Orange is the new Black.
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