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.
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. =
No one has any idea what they will do with the seized funds. The FBI doesn't just immediately move funds. For the same reason that they didn't redirect BTC-e.com immediately. They let it sit for a day or two. And then they changed the nameservers.
If they were able to, of course they would move any crypto funds they could immediately. Otherwise, the site admins could move them with the same private keys.
It's true, the seizures are usually the most important part for federal agencies. They can easily freeze bank accounts in US-friendly countries and they generally execute such warrants at the same time that they make raids/arrests. They always act all at once for maximum impact. And the reason we didn't see the takedown page for a couple days is because of DNS propagation.