Irish Criminal Assets Bureau Accesses 500 BTC in $418M Drug Case

Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau, with Europol's help, accessed a crypto wallet holding 500 bitcoin worth about $34 million linked to a major drug trafficking probe. This seizure represents the first of 12 wallets targeted in a $418 million investigation, highlighting law enforcement's growing success in tracking illicit digital assets. Authorities will pursue the remaining wallets to further dismantle the criminal financial network.