• Porto881
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    8911 hours ago

    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

      • @[email protected]
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        137 hours ago

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

        • @Dasus
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          56 hours ago

          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
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            22 hours ago

            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
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              12 hours ago

              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

        • @[email protected]
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          15 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.

      • Porto881
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        139 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.

      • @sir_pronoun
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        -198 hours ago

        Al-Jazeera is not a credible source