Bitcoin trade in the center of high-profile murder case in New Zealand

A new -Zeeland woman who is accused of killing her older mother, would have used a crypto -exit -swam only a few days earlier, thousands of extras through manufactured trading profits, while the bleeding of more than $ 40,000 in crypto and bitcoin investments said on Monday.

Julia Deluney is confronted with murder attacks in Wellington High Court for the death of her 79-year-old mother, Helen Gregory, in her house in Khandallah on January 24, 2024.

Public Prosecutors claim that Deluney has performed the scene to make it seem that her mother had fallen from an attic, while forensic experts concluded that the deadly injuries, including multiple blunt strength trauma, were not consistent with a fall.

Judicial testimony has now revealed how the Crypto -Handel addiction of the former school teacher was central to the alleged murder, according to NewStKZB report.

Justice officers say that Deluney had stolen from Gregory for months and used extensive crypto scams to extract the latest payments before the murder.

Financial data show that between January 2023 and January 2024 Deluney transferred more than $ 90,000 (NZD $ 156,555) to Crypto platforms.

Her income, including more than $ 53,000 (NZD $ 92,000) in deposits of friends and family, and $ 26,000 (NZD $ 45,000) of her mother, were reportedly not enough to compensate for her expenses.

At the beginning of 2024 she was in shortage $ 40,902.69 (NZD $ 68,000), according to New -Zeelandse Forensic Accountant Eric Huang.

Two days before the death of Gregory e -Mailde Deluney her mother and claimed one crypto Investments made on her behalf had generated more than $ 160,000 USD.

She asked $ 18,000 USD (NZD $ 30,000) for recording costs and tax obligation and asked her mother to cover half of the amount, reimbursements that a crypto expert later witnessed, were “completely untrue” and indicative of a scam.

Gregory then deposited $ 3,600 (NZD $ 6,000) cash on the Deluney account on January 23 and pulled $ 5,400 (NZ $ 9,000) out of her pension fund.

Red flags

“It’s all safe, Mama, don’t worry,” Deluney reportedly told Gregory when he was confronted with previous unauthorized crypto investments, according to the testimony of family friend Cheryl Thomson.

Instead of crypto investments, DeLuney used the money to pay credit card debt, buy a Lotto ticket and make payments to Sky TV, AfterPay and Miter 10, with only $ 1,200 actually invested in Crypto.

The cash deposit pattern raised red flags, as on 25 June 2023, Deluney has made eight deposits of a total of $ 18,000 (NZ $ 29,800) with smart ATMs, with $ 12,000 (NZ $ 20,000) deposited in four transactions within a few minutes.

While Deluney reportedly believed that crypto offered anonymity for her schedules, Blockchain Analysis Firm Chainalysis pointed out Decrypt That the opposite is often true.

“Although criminals often consider Crypto as a tool for financial anonymity, their dependence on the blockchain researchers has enabled these transactions to trace more easily than would have been possible with traditional money laundering of money,” the company said in the latter Crypto -crime report.

“In contrast to traditional financial investigations, in which evidence is often stopped in various institutions, the blockchain offers a single, authoritative, transparent and unchanging ledger,” the company said.

During the day Police interviewsDeluney claimed that she left her mother’s house to get help after Gregory fell from the attic and returned to find her death. She claims that someone else killed her mother during the 90 minutes she was gone.

However, the questions of the police revealed inconsistencies in her report, in particular with regard to blood certificate found throughout the house and in the attic ladder.

Deluney has maintained her innocence, with her defense team fighting that the police concentrated too scary on her as a suspect.