Scottish Prosecutors Seize and Convert 23.5 Bitcoin From 2020 Robbery

Scottish prosecutors have successfully seized and converted 23.5 Bitcoin into cash from a 2020 robbery involving three men armed with a machete and a Toblerone chocolate bar, near Glasgow. This marked the first instance of cryptocurrency being traced and seized in a Scottish robbery, highlighting a notable use of proceeds of crime legislation. Detective Inspector Craig Potter from Police Scotland’s Cyber Investigations unit described the case as “the first robbery in Scotland to involve tracing stolen cryptocurrency.” During the March 2020 home invasion in Blantyre, southeast of Glasgow, one of the robbers attacked a woman with a personalized Toblerone bar,