I Bitcoin, even if in a case of fraud and for reasons incidental to their nature, they make their first entry into the Supreme Court of Cassation.
The sixth criminal section of the Court of Cassation In mid-2018, it confirmed the ruling of the Milan Court of Appeal, which declared the existence of the conditions for accepting the extradition request of an Italian citizen, presented by the Government of the Swiss Confederation for the crime of fraud (provided for by Article 146 of the Swiss Criminal Code), in execution of the arrest warrant issued on 24 October 2017 by the Public Prosecutor of the Canton of Zurich.
The person to be extradited, arrested pursuant to the aforementioned arrest warrant, was placed in prison, later replaced with house arrest, deemed adequate to mitigate the risk of his escape.
The facts, as outlined in the report accompanying the extradition request drawn up by the Swiss authorities, relate to a currency exchange operation carried out using the so-called Rip-Deal technique through deception and cunning, with the object of exchanging 179,002 Bitcoin in cash at a Zurich hotel, classified as fraud under Article 146 of the Swiss Criminal Code.
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