U.S. Court orders $9.3B in stolen Bitcoin returned to Bitfinex after 2016 hack – BitRss

• The U.S. government has made a filing seeking to return the funds stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 back to the exchange. 
• In the court filing, the government claimed there were no victims in the hack after Bitfinex enacted a recovery plan.

The U.S. government has filed a submission in court seeking to return the funds stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 back to the exchange. Per the government, these assets would be returned as a “restitution in kind.” 

The crypto assets in question include around 94,000 Bitcoin [BTC ($99,299.68)] and an undisclosed amount of Bitcoin Cash [BCH ($455.65)], Bitcoin Gold [BTG ($12.12)], and Bitcoin Satoshi Vision [BSV ($55.76)]. 

Government says there is “no victim” in the hack 

In the filing made on the 14th of January, the U.S. government stated that there was “no victim for the specific offenses of conviction in this proc…