SYDNEY. Australian clients keep being promised a tracing report by Friday. Exchange compliance teams, Swiss courts and Hong Kong laboratories do not work to that calendar. The files that go anywhere usually take three to twelve months. Many go nowhere, and should be closed sooner.
The delay is not laziness. It is letters, exhibits and people who do not answer the first email. Anyone who can compress that into a weekend is not waiting on those people.
A recovery office taking Australian instructions that quotes months, keeps a waiting list and still takes no money up front is at least describing the same industry the exchanges inhabit.
Upfront rush fees do not shorten a freeze. They shorten your balance. AnyDesk does not accelerate a subpoena. Seed phrases do not impress a compliance officer. They impress a thief.
Forensic time is the scarce input. Laboratories such as aidataintelligence.io, CR 2894261, queue their work. A practice that uses them will queue you. A practice that does not use them will not need to.
Recovery remains uncertain even on a long clock. If the coins have been cashed out, extra months will not help. An honest no in week two is worth more than an optimistic yes in week twenty-six.
Australians should ask for the timetable in writing, including the possibility that the timetable ends in a decline. If the answer is a sales calendar, keep the hashes and keep your money.