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Despite much information on the internet Bendelladj did not get sentenced to death, and claims saying he donated any money to charity are almost impossible to verify. Trial documents did not mention any donations or charity activities, making the claim of charity disputed and not known for sure.
Is there any proof of the charity claims? Because Wikipedia gives nothing
Would be a bad hacker if he left a trail of all the money
Money leaves a trail by itself, it doesn't magically disappear and reappear somewhere else
I mean no, it doesn't, youre right.
Declaring income would be what most of those charities ans whatnot would prolly need to do somewhere at least. So I find this story dubious.
At the same time though, it is technically possible for him to have put money on crypto and email someone the keys to the wallets.
Even so, all reputable charities have a way to do honest accounting with rich anonymous donors or else that would be a real easy way to wash dirty money.
Yeah my point exactly.
But if this guy wasn't concerned about washing it and thought to leave that to the charities idk. He was a hacker, not an accountant for a cartel, so can't expect much.
But yeah giving away billions of stolen money would be a lot harder than some in the thread seem to think it is. I mean, technically you can give it via crypto but is it then of use is an other question
Wouldn't turning it into cash in separate transactions over some time and then paying it in via proxy be enough to make it untraceable from him? If you knew which charities, I think you'd still be able to track it down, but done that way this is also untraceable.
We're talking about billions. If he was converting $100,000 of that $4b per day, he'd clean his money in.... about 109 years.
There is a huge business of money laundering built specifically for this purpose. Any hacker worth their salt should know someone or some place.
Pretty much any word in the picture is contradicted by the Wikipedia article
Homeboy probably spent .000001% of the money on PR, bought a shitton of bitcoin with the rest, go to jail a few years, buy an island when he gets out, maybe Trump will be willing to sell Greenland to him at that point who knows
That article doesn't cite anything either, only that "some sources say" he donated some of the money. A far cry from the claim that he donated all of the stolen $4b.
I'll be honest. Charity aside, I like that the guy kicked the banks in the dick.
Robinhooding never looked so fiiiine. 👀
I doubt he'll still be smiling after 15 years in a Thai prison.
According to his Wikipedia article, he was sentenced in the US so I suppose he is in an American prison.
That explains why he got 15 years for a non-violent crime.
I guess that's slightly better.
Probably not
Pro tip: If you're gonna steal from a bank, steal from a Norwegian one.
Is there a back story to this that I don't know?
Norwegian prisons are famously relatively humane compared to most other countries
They have a better quality of life than low-income US citizen. Except for, you know, not being able to leave.
Here's an article about one of those prisons on an island: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/07/01/basty-norways-island-prison-where-inmates-work-ski-and-watch-tv/
Yes, I agree, but
Ah, thanks.
