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US Justice Department Confiscates $560,000 in Crypto from Al-Qassam Brigades Network
Federal authorities concluded a multi-year tracing operation that seized digital assets and compromised donor databases linked to the group.
The United States Department of Justice announced the dismantling of a cryptocurrency fundraising operation operated by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. The enforcement action resulted in the seizure of more than $560,000 in digital assets, the disruption of the group's primary online donation portal, and the recovery of identification data for thousands of potential donors.
Court filings indicate that the organization began soliciting cryptocurrency donations in early 2019 using an encrypted Telegram channel and an online portal. Despite public claims by the group that the transactions were impossible to trace—supported by rotating destination addresses—investigators traced the operation following a tip from a confidential source in the United States who flagged a solicitous Telegram message connected to a Hamas email address.
Federal investigators pieced together the transaction network across several years. Three distinct seizure warrants executed on March 25, June 25, and October 10, 2025, allowed law enforcement to intercept and confiscate the targeted funds.
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