ya right. USA government has everything right now. their "inictment" was from January 2017. that . means they already got all the necessary legal shit to hack btc-e and prepare for this takedown. they already had everything in place since the last 6 months
There certainly seems to be a case in this thread of underestimating law enforcement. These guys will have done a lot of groundwork and collected a lot of evidence for this case. This isn't just two cops in a panda car cuffing a guy.
That's true. One of the things that has been bothering me all this time, however, is the lack of announcement regarding seizure of funds. When things go right, the FBI (etc) issues a takedown and seizure of funds is the headliner in the press release. Not the case here. Maybe the US government is in control and is simply not giving away all the information (maybe hoping to goad admins into giving away server locations or their whereabouts). But I suspect that something went wrong, and the feds acted on this prematurely.