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Ireland Moves $38M in Bitcoin Tied to Drug Dealer’s Lost Fishing Rod

Bitcoin.com News·August 29, 2026·1 min read
Ireland Moves $38M in Bitcoin Tied to Drug Dealer’s Lost Fishing Rod

Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) moved another 500 BTC valued at $38 million from a cluster of old unspent transaction outputs once belonging to cannabis dealer Clifton Collins. This onchain movement appears to be the fourth recovery to date, as blockchain parsers show. The transfer underscores ongoing efforts to seize illicit crypto assets.

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