2023-4-2 14:26 |
Shanxi police in China have arrested a criminal gang involved in manufacturing and distributing fake cryptocurrency wallets
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Federal prosecutors in New York charged Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon with fraud hours after he was arrested by police in Montenegro.
2023-3-24 00:41 | |
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Per a report from Bankless, Terra (LUNA) co-founder Do Kwon was allegedly arrested in the region of Podgorica, Montenegro. South Korean authorities and the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) were on the hunt for Kwon for his alleged involvement in the collapse of the Terra ecosystem.
2023-3-23 16:42 | |
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The DOJ has charged the exchange with facilitating more than $700 million in illicit transactions tied to Russia, money laundering and criminal activity.
2023-1-19 21:46 | |
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The U.S DoJ arrested Bitzlato founder Anatoly Legkodymo in Miami last night The crypto exchange was pulled up for being a hub for criminal activity The U.S FinCEN announced that the crypto eThe post United States DoJ arrests founder of crypto exchange Bitzlato appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2023-1-19 20:32 | |
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The cross-border fraud network used call centres to defraud victims. The network operated in Germany, Serbia, Cyprus, and Bulgaria. 15 people connected to the network have been arrested so far. After the raid on Nexo’s offices in Bulgaria, the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation and Europol has arrested 15 people allegedly connected to […] The post Authorities dismantle a cross-border crypto fraud network in Europe appeared first on CoinJournal.
2023-1-13 18:53 | |
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Bahamian authorities have arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and ex-CEO of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, after the U.S. filed criminal charges.
2022-12-15 04:40 | |
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One of the co-founders of Terraform, David Shin, an online cryptocurrency trading platform, has been arrested and is facing criminal charges. Arrest Details Daniel Shin is accused of using insider information to profit from illegal market manipulation. The court appearance…
2022-12-3 22:15 | |
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The Central Bank of Afghanistan introduced a ban on mining and the use of cryptocurrency, Bloomberg reported. According to Syed Shah Sadaat, head of the Criminal Investigation Department, thirteen people have already been arrested in Herat, and more than twenty companies trading digital tokens have been closed.
2022-8-27 00:15 | |
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Speaking with Cointelegraph, Ksenia Malik stated that Dutch authorities are treating her husband as if he were “were a dangerous criminal” and that the creation of open-source software should never be criminalized.
2022-8-19 05:04 | |
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The Fiscal Information and Investigation Service (FIOD) has confirmed that the arrested Tornado Cash developer was suspected of being involved in the hiding of criminal financial transactions and facilitating money laundering.
2022-8-17 21:17 | |
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The U. S. has arrested a man on criminal charges after he allegedly defrauded the government’s Covid-19 loan programs and used the money to buy cryptocurrency and Tesla. Using PPP Loan to Buy Cryptocurrency and Tesla The U.
2021-7-13 17:30 | |
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Chinese police busted a network of more than 170 criminal groups as they arrested 1,100 suspects involved in money laundering by buying cryptocurrencies, security officials said in a statement. The post 1,100 people arrested in China over alleged crypto fraud appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-6-11 20:00 | |
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Chinese authorities have announced that more than 170 criminal gangs have been eliminated and over 1,100 suspects arrested in the latest round of crackdown on criminal groups providing cryptocurrency money laundering services for telecom fraudsters.
2021-6-11 19:00 | |
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The European law enforcement agency, Europol, has arrested 10 people believed to be members of the criminal gang that stole cryptocurrencies with an estimated value of $100 million. The arrests follow an international investigation into a series of sim swapping attacks that occurred in 2020.
2021-2-11 11:15 | |
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European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, better known as Europol arrested a criminal gang who hacked more than $100 million in cryptocurrencies by illegally gaining access to the phones The post Europol arrests hackers that stole $100 million in crypto through SIM-swapping appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-2-11 21:33 | |
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Three people have been charged in the U. S. over two cryptocurrency scams, one of which was promoted by famous Hollywood actor Steven Seagal. The main promoter of the schemes has already been arrested and is facing criminal charges.
2021-2-4 18:05 | |
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Jeremy Spence bilked his investors out of $5 million, according to a criminal complaint.
2021-1-27 21:48 | |
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The Indian police have reportedly recovered $1.1 million worth of Bitcoins from a 25-year-old jailed hacker, Srikrishna, who possessed the assets through fraudulent deeds. Srikrishna, a computer science graduate, who is also called Sriki among his peers, is allegedly a drug dealer and has been previously convicted and arrested over several criminal charges. Aside from […]
2021-1-17 14:10 | |
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Finland’s customs officials have revealed plans to sell 1,981 bitcoins that were seized mainly in connection with drug trafficking-related criminal investigations. The majority of the confiscated bitcoins (1,666) are from the Douppikauppa case, the darknet operator who was arrested in 2016.
2021-1-8 10:05 | |
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A board member of Ripple Ken Kurson has been arrested and charged with cyberstalking. Kurson who is also the Co-Founder of cryptocurrency website Modern Consensus was accused of sending messages containing threats to many people online which is an act that qualifies as a criminal offense under the anti-stalking, slander, and harassment laws of many […]
2020-10-24 04:50 | |
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The CEO of Arbistar the Spanish investment company, Santiago Fuentes, has been arrested and arraigned on charges of fraud, belonging to a criminal organization and money laundering. Fuentes, who has been in hiding since September, was arrested at one of his properties in the south of Tenerife.
2020-10-24 22:15 | |
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Long-serving Ripple board member Ken Kurson is currently facing criminal charges
2020-10-23 21:04 | |
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Arbistar 2.0 operator Santiago Fuentes was arrested Wednesday and faces criminal fraud and money laundering charges in Spain.
2020-10-23 21:54 | |
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Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, suspected of assisting criminals in laundering billions, was extradited to France where he will face criminal charges. Major suspect in a money-laundering operation to be charged in France Alexander Vinnik, a Russian citizen, was arrested in Greece back in 2017 due to his suspected involvement in a massive money-laundering operation that allegedly involved billions of dollars.
2020-1-29 20:00 | |
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A 23-year-old South Korean man is being accused of running the world’s “largest child sexual exploitation market,” which reportedly processed 7,300 Bitcoin transactions worth over $730,000. According to a criminal indictment unsealed today, the now-defunct English-language website known as “Welcome To Video,” featured over 250,000 child exploitation videos – approximately eight terabytes worth of horrific material.
2019-10-16 18:32 | |
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The police of the United Kingdom are currently selling $620,000 USD worth of Bitcoin (BTC) in an auction. According to the reports from London Economic, the money was seized from a criminal who was arrested for hacking companies in order to steal data from the clients.
2019-9-26 02:11 | |
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A Thai man who called himself the “cryptocurrency wizard” was arrested in Bangkok today, in relation to a 500 million baht cryptocurrency exchange fraud. According to a report by the Bangkok Post, 48-year old Mana Jumuang was part of a Thai-Vietnamese criminal group that duped thousands of people across multiple Asian countries.
2019-9-6 22:30 | |
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The CID (Criminal Investigation Department) of India has arrested four individuals in Surat; Dhiraj Patel, Vijay Prajapati, Ashiq Shaikh and Kamruddin Syed in connection with an alleged cryptocurrency ponzi scheme.
2019-7-7 19:06 | |
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A drug-smuggling kingpin has been using west Dublin teenagers as young as 14 to store large amounts of narcotics bought with cryptocurrency via the dark web, reports Irish local media The Journal citing sources familiar with the matter.
2019-6-27 14:33 | |
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The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a government employee alleged to have misused government IT infrastructure for personal cryptomining operations, per a press release.
2019-5-22 18:47 | |
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By CCN: Crypto investor and entrepreneur Michael Terpin was awarded $75. 8 million in California’s Supreme Court in a civil judgment against a man Terpin claims stole cryptocurrency assets from him.
2019-5-13 22:45 | |
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By CCN: A crypto money-laundering ring that was offering its services to other criminal enterprises has been dismantled in Spain. The Crime as a Service operation is believed to have laundered approximately $10.
2019-5-10 19:45 | |
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In a major operation to uncover dark web business, the German Federal Criminal Police pulled down the shutters of the largest dark web market, the Wall Street Market. In a similar operation earlier this year, Finnish Customs and the French National Police busted Silkkitie, aka the Valhalla Marketplace, along with its entire content, Europol announcedRead MoreRead More.
2019-5-5 09:00 | |
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Wall Street Market, the second-largest darknet market in the world in recent months, has been shut down by international law enforcement agencies, including Europol as well as U.
2019-5-4 22:03 | |
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An Arizona Man and an Israeli woman have been charged in connection with providing “shadow banking services” to cryptocurrency exchanges — involving millions of dollars. The two individuals were charged by the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in a criminal investigation.
2019-5-2 14:00 | |
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Three men have been arrested this month under suspicions of running one of the largest drug stalls on the dark web named “Sinmed,” as reported by ABC News Australia. The illegal drug marketplace conducted its business on Dream Market, which is now suspected of being compromised as a “honey pot” by law enforcement agencies.
2019-4-29 22:00 | |
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By CCN. com: The Joint Criminal Opioid and Darknet Enforcement (J-CODE) team announced 61 arrests today and the seizure of millions in cryptocurrency as a result of Operation SaboTor, an effort targeting international drug traffickers operating on the dark web.
2019-3-28 19:01 | |
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On March 6th, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested OneCoin ringleader Konstantin Ignatov at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The government alleges that he was one of several masterminds behind the multi-billion dollar crypto pyramid scheme.
2019-3-9 04:30 | |
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Cryptocurrency scams that have been running for years in India are finally getting busted by the local police. Criminal investigation authorities in the Indian state of Gujarat have booked five people for running a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO) called Bitstrades.
2019-2-27 19:07 | |
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Several of South Korea’s top crypto exchanges have found themselves in hot water, with executives at a couple of exchanges facing criminal charges and jail time. According to a news report on the Korean website Blockinpress, the CEO of Komid, a Korean crypto exchange, has received a three-year prison sentence for committing fraud against investors by artificially inflating the exchange’s actual trading volume.
2019-1-23 00:57 | |
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India could be making a U-turn on its directives for cryptocurrencies. Per reports from the New India Express, a second interdisciplinary committee set up by the Indian government is considering making cryptocurrencies legal in the country again but with more stringent rules.
2018-12-28 02:16 | |
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South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, UpBit, faces criminal charges after top executives were formally indicted by the country’s legal prosecutors, as reported by Business Korea on December 21, 2018.
2018-12-23 02:16 | |
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The Winklevoss twins have filed a lawsuit against bitcoin investor Charlie Shrem, alleging that Shrem “stole” 5,000 bitcoins from them in 2012. According to a recent report released by the New York Times, Charlie Shrem has made several large purchases over the past year, including multiple real estate properties, luxury cars, powerboats and a $2 million house.
2018-11-3 20:19 | |
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Binance has frozen multiple accounts associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Wex, citing money laundering concerns. The CEO of Binance went on Twitter recently to announce the freezing of multiple accounts owned by Wex, claiming that Binance will cooperate with law enforcement in any way possible should a criminal investigation result from alleged money laundering.
2018-11-1 01:47 | |
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Boxing superstar Floyd Mayweather and rap producer DJ Khaled face a legal battle for serving as celebrity endorsers to an initial coin offering (ICO) accused of fraud. The founders of the allegedly fraudulent ICO were arrested by American criminal authorities back in April.
2018-10-21 17:10 | |
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Thai authorities have arrested a prime suspect involved in a cryptocurrency scam worth 797 million baht. Details of the Arrest The Thailand Police arrested Parinya Jaravijit, elder brother of Thai actor, Jirapisit “Boom” Jaravijit, on October 11 (Thursday), at the Suvarnabhumi Airport.
2018-10-13 10:19 | |
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Chinese police have recently arrested three men for hacking and stealing 600 million yuan ($87 million) in cryptocurrencies. According to the South China Morning Post, the Xian Police officers stated on Saturday, August 18, 2018, that when it came to cryptocurrency criminal investigations in China, this was the largest number of stolen cryptocurrencies in the nation.
2018-8-21 16:00 | |
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The man behind the Asian branch of the $2. 4 billion cryptocurrency scam operation Bitconnect has been arrested by police officers on August 18, 2018, from the Gujarat Criminal Investigation Department at Delhi Airport on his return to India.
2018-8-21 00:00 | |
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Nearly eight months to the day after the ponzi scheme BitConnect exit scammed, the sins of the project have caught up to one of its figureheads. Divyesh Darji, the alleged leader of BitConnect’s Asian team, was arrested this Saturday, August 18, 2018, in the Delhi airport by the Gujarat Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
2018-8-20 19:54 | |
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