It is no news that in some jurisdictions there have been cases
where virtual currencies being criminal proceeds were seized,
confiscated, and even auctioned off by courts or law enforcement
agencies. Are there like cases in Taiwan?
Seizure
Some Taiwanese law enforcement agencies have created virtual
accounts (or "wallets") to hold virtual currencies seized
from suspects. For example, in a theft of electricity case of 2018
where the stolen electrical power was used for Bitcoin mining,
Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau (CIB) detained
5.41249743 Bitcoins mined by the suspect, "after deducting the
transaction fee of 0.0002 Bitcoins incurred in storing the seized
Bitcoins into a Bitcoin hardware wallet." Chia-Yi District
Prosecutors Office v. Chang, 107 Yi 869, Chia-Yi District
Court (November 2019).
