The U.S. Department of Justice seeks to seize over $500,000 in USDT from the private wallets of Iranian drone suppliers

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit aimed at recovering $584,741 in USDT from an Iranian citizen.

According to the DOJ, Mohammad Abedini is the founder of an Iranian company called SDRA, which provides technical support for Iran's "Shahed" military drones. It is alleged that these tokens are held in a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet, but authorities did not provide further details.