Crypto exchange Coinbase says it played a “key role” in supporting a US Secret Service investigation that resulted in the seizure of $225 million linked to crypto investment scams earlier this month.
On June 18, the Department of Justice filed to seize more than $225 million in crypto recovered by the Secret Service that was allegedly stolen by pig butchering scammers, which Agent in Charge Shawn Bradstreet said at the time was the largest cryptocurrency seizure in the agency’s history.
Coinbase said in a blog post on Tuesday that it joined…