Russian Official Under Fire for Allegedly Accepting $28 Million Bitcoin Bribe
The local media outlet, Kommersant, reported details of the highest bribery case in recent years, where an officer received a bribe worth millions of dollars in Bitcoin. The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federat...
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The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation and the Prosecutor General's Office discovered the bribery incident.
Notably, the head of the ICR department for the Tverskoy district of Moscow, Marat Tambiev, collected bribes in Bitcoins from hackers under his investigation. ...
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