Hid $467k in a thermometer: Spanish police smashed the largest pirate manga site
In Spain, law enforcement officers covered the largest underground site distributing manga in Spanish. The operation took place in Almeria: the police seized two hardware crypto wallets, disguised as a regular room thermometer. Inside the "device" was stored about €400 thousand (equivalent to $467 thousand).
According to the Spanish Ministry of Interior, the site has been operating for a full ten years - since 2014. During this time, the owners of the pirate platform earned more than €4 million. The main source of income is advertising on the resource, where Japanese comics were freely posted in translation. Three alleged organizers were detained during the raid.
The reason for the investigation was numerous complaints from copyright holders, received in June last year. This case clearly shows how criminals use "cold" wallets to hide income even from atypical cryptocurrency crimes - in this case, intellectual piracy.
Authorities have not yet disclosed whether they have been able to access passwords and seed phrases. Without this, the seized $467 thousand risk being permanently blocked inside the devices. Representatives of the Ministry of Interior refrain from commenting on methods of hacking crypto protection.
The elimination of a large-scale pirate project has become a serious step in the fight for copyright in the Spanish-speaking Internet. The detainees are threatened with terms for many years of violation of intellectual property and legalization of criminal income. The raid in Almeria proves: the police are capable of finding evidence even in the most ordinary household items. Meanwhile, cybercriminals are not standing still - they are increasingly using AI tools and methods.
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