Bitcoin Mining Hardware Thief Escapes from Prison

The alleged malefactor behind Iceland's "Big Bitcoin Heist" has at liberty from jail and at liberty to Sverige.

Sindri Norse deity Stefansson, United Nations agency is suspect of stealing 600 cryptocurrency mining computers across a minimum of four separate incidents between Gregorian calendar month 2017 and Gregorian calendar month 2018, allegedly flew to Sverige on a flight with Iceland's prime minister, consistent with a report from The Guardian revealed Wed.

Police in remission an extra twenty two people as potential accomplices, tho' it's unclear what number stay in custody.

The heist - that resulted within the felony of associate calculable $2 million price of mining hardware - is that the largest in Iceland's history, as antecedently reportable. At the time, officers referred to as it "a extremely organized crime" that was coordinated "on a scale unseen before."

As such, Stefansson possible had facilitate escaping, native police officer Gunnar Schram was quoted as speech. He told reporters that the alleged criminal "had associate accomplice" to assist him leave the low-security jail he was being command in and jaunt the airfield, placed some sixty miles away.

The mining hardware has not nonetheless been recovered, The Guardian more reportable. The house owners of the machines have offered $60,000 as an award for anyone United Nations agency will facilitate find the machines.

While a warrant is out for Stefansson's arrest in Sverige, his whereabouts ar reportedly unknown at now.