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Hamza Bendelladj

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[–] PP_BOY_ 118 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

Despite much information on the internet Bendelladj did not get sentenced to death, and claims saying he donated any money to charity are almost impossible to verify. Trial documents did not mention any donations or charity activities, making the claim of charity disputed and not known for sure.

Is there any proof of the charity claims? Because Wikipedia gives nothing

[–] solstice 1 points 42 minutes ago

Homeboy probably spent .000001% of the money on PR, bought a shitton of bitcoin with the rest, go to jail a few years, buy an island when he gets out, maybe Trump will be willing to sell Greenland to him at that point who knows

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much any word in the picture is contradicted by the Wikipedia article

[–] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

As many narrative exist depending on who's facts you're listening to.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Would be a bad hacker if he left a trail of all the money

[–] [email protected] 20 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Money leaves a trail by itself, it doesn't magically disappear and reappear somewhere else

[–] Dasus 8 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mean no, it doesn't, youre right.

Declaring income would be what most of those charities ans whatnot would prolly need to do somewhere at least. So I find this story dubious.

At the same time though, it is technically possible for him to have put money on crypto and email someone the keys to the wallets.

[–] StaticFalconar 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Even so, all reputable charities have a way to do honest accounting with rich anonymous donors or else that would be a real easy way to wash dirty money.

[–] Dasus 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah my point exactly.

But if this guy wasn't concerned about washing it and thought to leave that to the charities idk. He was a hacker, not an accountant for a cartel, so can't expect much.

But yeah giving away billions of stolen money would be a lot harder than some in the thread seem to think it is. I mean, technically you can give it via crypto but is it then of use is an other question

[–] Demdaru 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wouldn't turning it into cash in separate transactions over some time and then paying it in via proxy be enough to make it untraceable from him? If you knew which charities, I think you'd still be able to track it down, but done that way this is also untraceable.

[–] PP_BOY_ 2 points 5 hours ago

We're talking about billions. If he was converting $100,000 of that $4b per day, he'd clean his money in.... about 109 years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

There is a huge business of money laundering built specifically for this purpose. Any hacker worth their salt should know someone or some place.

[–] Doorbook 1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] PP_BOY_ 19 points 17 hours ago

That article doesn't cite anything either, only that "some sources say" he donated some of the money. A far cry from the claim that he donated all of the stolen $4b.