Royal Canadian Mounted Police

On September 15, 2025, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) executed a historic seizure against the TradeOgre cryptocurrency exchange, confiscating approximately 56 million CAD in assets. Rather than relying on a standard administrative freeze, authorities executed a physical warrant at the exchange’s data center in Beauharnois, Quebec, where they extracted private keys directly from the server infrastructure. To secure the funds, the RCMP immediately swept the assets into new, government-controlled cold storage wallets, effectively taking the exchange offline and placing the funds under federal custody.

On chain analysis, corroborated by leaked court filings, has identified the Litecoin address ltc1qls...0x9z as the likely holding facility for a portion of these assets. The link between the physical seizure and this digital address is established by a unique numeric fingerprint: the wallet received an inflow of exactly 8,934.501572 LTC on the day of the raid. This specific figure matches the asset inventory listed in the police’s "Report to the Preliminary Judge" down to the sixth decimal place, confirming the transfer corresponds to the custodial movement described in the warrant.

Any remaining ambiguity regarding the wallet's ownership was dispelled by an on-chain "tagging" transaction, 45a8...8a9b, which explicitly labeled the address with an OP_RETURN message reading "Assets controlled by the RCMP / Actifs contrls par la GRC." This immutable digital seal serves as a definitive government warning and confirms the private keys are held by the RCMP’s Money Laundering Investigation Team in Westmount, Quebec. As per the detention order filed with the Court of Quebec, these assets remain legally frozen and dormant until at least September 2026 pending the outcome of the investigation.