Three NFTs were seized alongside cryptocurrency.
The UK’s tax department, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs , says it’s the first authority in the country to seize an NFT,. The seizure was made as part of a £1.4 million fraud case, in which three individuals have been arrested. The authority seized £5,000 worth of crypto assets alongside three NFT artworks which have yet to be valued.
As cryptocurrencies have exploded in price, high profile seizures by authorities have become increasingly common. Just this month the USA’s Department of Justicelinked to the 2016 Bitfinex hack. But this is one of the first high profile seizures of NFTs, digital assets that attempt to serve as proof of ownership of media like images or songs.
The suspected fraud is alleged to have involved 250 fake companies, and the three suspects apparently used everything from fake addresses, pre-paid phones, VPNs, and stolen identities to hide their activities from HMRC.that HMRC has not taken control of the NFTs, but that it is using a court order to prevent them from being sold.
This is unlikely to be the last time we hear about authorities seizing NFTs. Recently an IRS special agent noted that the agency is increasingly focusing on crypto-assets because of the “mountains” of fraud it’s seeing in the area,
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