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Sure, ok, so they have an encrypted version of the private key!?

From the Wiki:

> The wallet.dat file is located in the Bitcoin data directory and may be encrypted with a password.

I guess they have the encrypted wallet.dat, but not the password for decrypting it.

Obviously it has been seized. They put it in the /police/property/seized dir and therefore it is the government's!

More likely C:\Users\OfficerDibble\Desktop\