Yeah, I know of an identical incident in my country. Some police officers from my country stop a bus and arrest a man with his phone. Later we found out that the man was involved in gambling activity and at that time he was holding 22 Bitcoin in his mobile Bitcoin wallet. I am not sure if that man was dumb to do that or not conscious enough to carry his Bitcoin within his mobile phone.
I don't think there is nothing wrong with him having his bitcoin along with him always but the truth is that the country is messed up and I don't know your country but if the guy can prove that his winnings are from gambling then I think their shouldn't be any reasons to hold him down except gambling is illegal in your country .
On the other hand, if someone already has over 22 Bitcoins in his possession, then what really must have hindered him from having a hardware wallet?
Well I'm sure only the victim can answer perfectly for himself but whatever the case might be, we shoukd learn how to trade with caution while handling Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general especially if it has restrictions in our country
Yeah, gambling is illegal in my country, and trading or exchanging any kind of cryptocurrencies as well. So hardware wallet is not so easy to get in the country and customers even blocked the delivery of safepal hardware wallet in some cases. You are right the country is just so messed up and the law enforcement agency tries to take advantage of the situation most of the time.
Still, bitcoin is very popular in my country and people uses P2P transaction to trade bitcoin with each other. Many use mobile banking system to bypass the formal banking channel so that they won't get caught.
That's also similar case over here although is very much legalize in my country and almost everyone is into it due to the poor standard of living here and the situation with crypto is still not quite understandable over because with I feel about Bitcoin and crypto legalisation in my country, it only the CBN that put restriction on transacting crypto with your Normal fiat bank but the issue on the restriction has been taken to another level by the so called government security official.