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The U.S. Department of Justice today filed a civil lawsuit for forfeiture of $225 million worth of funds related to fraud in digital asset investments and money laundering.The U.S. Department of Justice today filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit in federal district court for the District of Columbia, alleging that it lost more than $225.3 million in cryptocurrencies. According to the lawsuit, law enforcement authorities used blockchain analysis and other investigative techniques to determine that cryptocurrencies are linked to the theft and money laundering of funds of victims of cryptocurrency investment fraud. The complaint alleges that the cryptocurrency address containing more than $225.3 million in cryptocurrencies is part of a sophisticated blockchain-based money laundering network that carries out hundreds of thousands of transactions and is used to disperse the proceeds of cryptocurrency investment fraud across a number of cryptocurrency addresses and accounts on the blockchain to hide the source of the illegally obtained funds.