According to @stocktalkweekly, China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center alleged the U.S. government stole 127,272 BTC (about $13 billion) from the LuBian Bitcoin mining pool in December 2020, describing it as a state-level hacker operation. source: @stocktalkweekly The Chinese report links the LuBian-stolen BTC to tokens later confiscated by the U.S. government and associated with Chen Zhi, chairman of Cambodia’s Prince Group. source: @stocktalkweekly The U.S. Department of Justice filed a civil forfeiture complaint seizing 127,271 BTC, characterized as the largest U.S. forfeiture action, while federal prosecutors declined to comment on how the Bitcoin was obtained. source: @stocktalkweekly This case concentrates a large BTC cache tied to government forfeiture actions and one of the largest crypto heists in history, a scale relevant to market participants tracking major Bitcoin holdings. source: @stocktalkweekly