After a decade of dormancy, 500 BTC—valued at $35.5M—from Clifton Collins’ seized 2011 wallet moved to a Coinbase Custody address, reportedly via a coordinated Europol-Irish Garda operation involving advanced decryption or compromised key generation; over $426M remains across his 12 linked addresses.
Irish authorities, with Europol support, recovered 500 Bitcoin (valued at over $35M) from a wallet long deemed inaccessible after its private keys were lost—linked to drug trafficker Clifton Collins. The breakthrough involved forensic collaboration and technical decryption, challenging the notion that lost crypto is irretrievable.