The battle for $10k continues - back up over for the time being... currently $10144USD/$13425CAD (Bitcoinaverage).
Everybody having a shot when it crosses back up?
6000 bitcoin on the shelf for 7 years after being seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau -
Full story - https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2020/0219/1116299-bit-coin-clifton-collins/
What if he didn't give them the private key? (or someone else has it, and it gets moved ...)
What if he kept the coins in a wallet app in a PC, laptop, or cellphone? Or a hardware wallet and they found the seed phrase? Or they simply found his private keys?
What if they already moved them?
It takes extra precautions to protect your private keys.
I'm pretty sure that whatever gov agency claims they got the coins, already moved them to a wallet they control. That would be a huge mistake to assume mere physical possession of a computer or desktop or laptop wallet means they have the coins. They had better move it already.
Imagine if the perps cousin or friend or other trusted (or untrusted) person had a copy, and moved the coins before the gov agency could, after the perp got locked up. He can honestly claim he didn't do it, and all the gov would have is some "public address" they "seized" ... (from a bonded courier who happens to be an attorney so can't say anything about it?)