According to *Procuratorial Daily*, a second-instance retrial in a case in Wuhan, Hubei, has reclassified a virtual-currency theft case in which a digital wallet private key was secretly photographed and stolen. In May 2024, Lin, Zeng, and Dai used trading in virtual currency as a cover, secretly photographed the victim’s digital wallet private key, and after the virtual currency was credited, secretly logged into the wallet to cancel the transactions, transferring the virtual currency back to accounts under their control. The three offenses caused losses of 660,000 yuan (about $92,000). The court of first instance did not directly determine that the amount involved was particularly huge. After the procuratorate filed a protest, the Wuhan Intermediate People’s Court held in the second instance that the amount stolen was particularly huge, and sentenced the principal offender, Lin, to ten years and six months’ imprisonment for theft; sentenced the accomplices, Zeng and Dai, to eight years’ imprisonment each; and imposed fines.

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