Special cold wallet/Ke Wenzhe has been found! The location of the master key is unknown, and the case of Jinghua City enters the battlefield of counterfeit money investigation

Special cold wallet/Ke Wenzhe has been found! The location of the master key is unknown, and the case of Jinghua City enters the battlefield of counterfeit money investigation

(Reporter Wu Zhengfeng/Reporting from Taipei) Former Mayor of TaipeiKe WenzheHe was detained and investigated for the Jinghua City Capacity Fraud Case In September, he was reported to have a private virtual currency “cold wallet” involved in illegal financial flows. However, “Ling Media” has the latest news. virtual currency and trading records on the public chain to see if they are related to bribes.

The Beijing Bureau of Investigation investigated the Jinghua City Capacity Compensation Case On August 30, they first interviewed Ke Wenzhe and others suspected of committing crimes for profit, and then divided their troops to search Ke’s home Wenzhe, office, headquarters of the People’s Party and others to investigate. After the interrogation, they sent more Yi Yi, who committed a serious crime of accepting bribes, to the court to detain and ban Ke Wenzhe, prompting speculation whether compensation, money or valuables another was the suspicious cash flow.

On September 12, “Ling Media” exclusively reported that after the Beijing Investigation Bureau seized two secret safes belonging to Ke Wenzhe Chen Peiqi’s spouse, it was immediately reported that, in addition to 1 million yuan, the safes -deposit can also be used for private virtual currency storage. keys and key public addresses (such as The cold wallet (bank account number) which was suspected as a vehicle for bribery between Shen Qingjing, chairman of Weijin Group, and Ke Wenzhe. However, the news was later clarified by the Office of Prosecutor Beijing as “completely inconsistent with the facts.”

It is difficult to retrieve the PIN code and the memorable phrase from the cold wallet.

However, “Ling Media” recently received news that Ke Wenzhe has a cold wallet, which was seized by the Beijing Bureau of Investigation as early as August 30 and September 27 after two waves of searches involving a total of 77 locations provided by this time the cold wallet that prosecutors have not yet found.

What is a “mnemonic phrase“? Cold virtual wallets have a PIN code, which can open and transfer virtual coins in the wallet If the PIN code is lost, it must be restored remotely with a mnemonic phrase As long as you get the mnemonic phrase, you can go online and transfer virtual coins in the cold wallet over the air from anywhere in the world.

On September 5, Ko Wenzhe was charged by the Taipei District Court with serious crimes related to the Corruption Crime Ordinance, risk of tampering and destruction of evidence after it was decided that to be held without permission, he told his lawyer that he was not prepared to protest against the arrest, but asked that “the prosecutor will release all investigative duty during the two-month detention period, and will try his best to cooperate with the investigation.”

Having said that, Ke Wenzhe has not fully cooperated with the prosecutor’s investigation in the past two months He even admitted to the co-defendant Zhu Yahu, the former chairman of Dingyue Development (on hired by Shen Qingjing to handle the Jinghua City case) through seven. After making a political donation of 2.1 million yuan to the People’s Party, Ke once made a surprising move to “refusal to question”, which appeared to delay the investigation to buy time and the defense strategy change lawsuit.

Both prosecution and defense presentations involve white hat hacker masters

Regarding the cold wallet confession, Ke Wenzhe did not seem to tell the 4- to 8-digit PIN code used to unlock it from the evidence released so far, and the prosecutor Chen Minjin who was possible virtual currencies. employed by the Prosecutor’s Office in Beijing, joined Jinghua City to handle the case.

The mnemonic phrase of the cold wallet is very important the PIN at the same time, codes and mnemonic phrases, the digital assets in the wallet will never be recovered. Therefore, the custodian usually carefully writes down the mnemonic phrase on paper and stores it in a safe place not too far from the cold wallet so that it can be retrieved immediately if the PIN is lost. to forget

However, Ke Wenzhe, his related organizations and the premises of the relevant defendants were searched many times by the prosecutor, but only the cold wallet was seized, and no homosexual expression was found, and the investigation may have been early Before the Jinghua City case started, it had been given to a trusted third party for safekeeping In addition, Ke Wei provided a PIN code, which was deliberately protected , making the amount, store and transaction records of the virtual currency in the cold wallet even more interesting.

Before the trial in September, Ko Wenzhe changed his position and appointed Xiao Yihong, a “white hat hacker” lawyer with experience in information security, to handle the trial prosecutor and a judge, but it was another idea that I want to borrow Xiao’s help in handling the cold wallet. In this regard, Xiao Yihong said that he did not know whether Ke Wenzhe’s cold wallet was found, and that he did not help Ke in handling matters related to the cold wallet.

The inability to crack a brute force password increases the chance of it being retained.

It was also rumored that Ko Wenzhe’s personal accountant Xu Zhiyu was entrusted to protect the co-watcher, the Beijing Bureau of Investigation often sent her back to Taiwan, but Xu Zhiyu never appeared or responded. e to put out the fire​​​​, which increased the chance of Ke Wenzhe being detained and made her role even more suspicious.

The cold wallet has a self-protection device Depending on the brand, usually as long as you enter the wrong PIN code 3-5 times, the private key in the memory will be cleared automatically Even if Beiquan will enter the virtual currency battlefield, he can not violently crack the password. The main priority for prosecutors is to find the “mnemonic phrase” first. Even if the virtual currency’s private key has been transferred, they can still go to the public chain and check the t -match transaction amount, time, and other wallet address through the wallet. address, and compare potential cash flows.

Regarding the discovery of Ke Wenzhe’s cold wallet, the Beijing Prosecutor’s Office responded that the whole case is still under investigation Based on “Investigative Non-Disclosure Procedures”, no content and matters related to secrets can be confirm an investigation or provide an opinion.

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