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[โ€“] Lemminary 19 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Robinhooding never looked so fiiiine. ๐Ÿ‘€

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago

Luigi + Hamza fanfic erotica coming soon, (banned in china.)

[โ€“] FlashMobOfOne 29 points 10 hours ago

I'll be honest. Charity aside, I like that the guy kicked the banks in the dick.

[โ€“] MolecularCactus1324 66 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Even his prison guards are smiling. One on the left looks like he admires him.

[โ€“] mynameisigglepiggle 1 points 22 minutes ago

He is about to give him a happy ending

[โ€“] PP_BOY_ 119 points 21 hours ago (16 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

[โ€“] solstice 1 points 3 hours 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] Clinicallydepressedpoochie 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 25 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] Dasus 8 points 16 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.

[โ€“] StaticFalconar 6 points 12 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.

[โ€“] Dasus 2 points 12 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

[โ€“] Demdaru 1 points 10 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.

[โ€“] PP_BOY_ 2 points 8 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.

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[โ€“] Diplomjodler3 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I doubt he'll still be smiling after 15 years in a Thai prison.

[โ€“] Deway 15 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

According to his Wikipedia article, he was sentenced in the US so I suppose he is in an American prison.

[โ€“] [email protected] 47 points 16 hours ago

That explains why he got 15 years for a non-violent crime.

[โ€“] Diplomjodler3 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I guess that's slightly better.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

Pro tip: If you're gonna steal from a bank, steal from a Norwegian one.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a back story to this that I don't know?

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Norwegian prisons are famously relatively humane compared to most other countries

[โ€“] CitizenKong 13 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

They have a better quality of life than low-income US citizen. Except for, you know, not being able to leave.

Here's an article about one of those prisons on an island: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidnikel/2020/07/01/basty-norways-island-prison-where-inmates-work-ski-and-watch-tv/

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Yes, I agree, but

  • they're not all as nice as that one
  • the US is especially bad
  • Norwegians who aren't in prison have a way higher quality of life
  • not being able to leave is still a pretty big deal
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Tbf, if I could move to a Norwegian prison, Iโ€™d probably consider it.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Is that Danny Ricardo? Lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Red Bull should be afraid

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