CNBC obtained never-before-seen body camera footage that shows how investigators linked Jimmy Zhong to the Silk Road hack
Highlights
- Georgia native Jimmy Zhong called 911 to report he’d been robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin.
- Private investigator Robin Martinelli found a suspect in the case.
- Martinelli’s investigation revealed a dark truth about the universe of hackers and coders responsible for the creation of cryptocurrencies.
- Zhong’s case led to the largest seizure of cryptocurrency from an individual in the history of the Department of Justice’s history of seizing cryptocurrency.
- The case is featured in a new documentary, “Crypto 911: Exposing a Bitcoin Billionaire,” on Tuesday, March 13, at 10 p.m.
- ET on CNN.
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