FBI Raid of Private Safety Deposit Boxes in 2021
Tuesday, January 27, 2024 The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FBI raid was unlawful in March 2021, when it searched renters’ private safe deposit boxes in Beverly Hills, conducted illegal searches, and tried to permanently keep everything in the boxes of significant value without charging any of the box renters with a crime. The entire vault was raided and property was seized.
US Private Vaults, or USPV, who provided safe deposit boxes without requiring identification was investigated by the FBI. The FBI had been investigating individual USPV customers, but decided their big target was USPV, which they believed assisted money laundering.
