A dormant Bitcoin wallet linked to a darknet drug lord funded a government And forced a minister to resign 🚨 Here’s what’s happening: - The Wallet 468 BTC (~$45M) were sent to the Czech Ministry of Justice. Wallet linked to: Tomáš Jiřikovský Total estimated holdings behind it: hundreds of millions in BTC - The Darknet Origin Jiřikovský ran Sheep Marketplace A darknet platform for: - drugs - weapons - illegal services Arrested in 2016 Convicted in 2017 Released in 2021 - The Seized Devices Police confiscated ~30 devices These devices held access to Bitcoin wallets, courts later ruled they had to be returned In 2025 he gets them back After years of silence the wallet comes back to life - The Transaction 468 BTC sent directly to a government wallet accepted as a donation The Minister Pavel Blažek approves it calls it legal calls it clean days later, the story explodes and he resigns May 31, 2025 - The Political Fallout opposition calls it laundering, pushes for government collapse vote of no confidence government survives but barely - The Missing Bitcoin the 468 BTC was only a fraction Jiřikovský disappears and none of this was supposed to happen This shows how close criminal Bitcoin can get to power Closer than anyone thought