Seizure lifted on Bitcoin-24's German accounts
Lawyers for Bitcoin-24 say the seizure of the European exchange's German accounts has been lifted by the public prosecutor's office in Berlin. "This means that the suspicions concerning our client in relation to the alleged fraud and money laundering could not be substantiated," states a press release from the firm of Röhl-Dehm & Partner. "Our client is now in the process of preparing to make; the first payments from the German account." The release adds, "For the time being these payments may only be made to those customers who have made payments into the account at Commerzbank and have....
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