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Cybercrime cops look for true owners of £16m in stolen cryptocurrency after smashing huge online scam

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Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing Cybercrime cops in Manchester have seized £16M in stolen cryptocurrency after smashing a huge online scam.

Now they're trying to return the cash to its rightful owners. It was seized by specialist officers from GMP's Economic Crime Unit after they swooped on the scammers while they were in Manchester and discovered USB sticks containing huge amounts of Ethereum, the second largest cryptocurrency after BitCoin.

Victims from across the globe had deposited money, including life savings, into what they thought was an online savings and cryptocurrency trading service. READ MORE: Two pensioners arrested and £80k Bentley seized in huge fraud investigation But the

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