[Former Russian Traffic Police Officer Sentenced to 7 Years for Stealing Bitcoin]
On December 27, a former traffic police officer from Ufa, Russia, was sentenced to 7 years in prison for stealing approximately 20 million rubles (equivalent to several hundred thousand US dollars) worth of Bitcoin. The incident occurred in 2022, when the officer illegally accessed the mobile phones of two detained individuals while handling a case. Using messaging apps and crypto wallets, he transferred BTC, accompanied by acts of violent evidence collection. The court sentenced him to 7 years in a general-regime prison, ordered him to compensate the victims approximately 20 million rubles, and stripped him of his police rank.