2025-8-13 14:39 |
Do Kwon’s fall from crypto wunderkind to fraudster has recently reached its final act. The Terraform Labs co-founder, once hailed as a visionary, has pleaded guilty to charges tied to the $40 billion collapse of TerraUSD and Luna. As one… origin »
|
The guilty plea highlights the urgent need for stricter regulations and oversight in the rapidly evolving cryptocurrency market. The post Do Kwon pleads guilty to defrauding crypto investors in $40 billion Terra collapse appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2025-8-12 18:34 | |
|
|
Irina Dilkinska, who reportedly served as “Head of Legal and Compliance” for the supposed crypto project, pleaded guilty to charges of wire fraud and money laundering on Nov. 9 in a Manhattan federal court.
2023-11-10 23:00 | |
|
|
A crypto escrow executive has pled guilty to defrauding his client out of $3.25 million.
2020-10-2 04:37 | |
|
|
The operator of an allegedly fraudulent crypto escrow scheme accused of misappropriating $7 million from two clients is expected to plead guilty in September.
2020-7-9 04:33 | |
|
|
A co-founder of the celebrity-backed Centra Tech crypto scam has pleaded guilty to his role in the $25 million fraudulent ICO.
2020-6-17 21:44 | |
|
|
Federal prosecutors have replied to Mark Scott’s attempt to have his OneCoin fraud convictions dismissed. Last year a jury found Scott guilty of laundering USD $400 million for the crypto scam, all while keeping millions for himself.
2020-3-25 15:23 | |
|
|
Why do regulators assume that crypto transactions carry increased risks?
2020-2-27 01:00 | |
|
|
Gemcoin founder Steve Chen appeared in court and pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud charges and tax evasion. He and other perpetrators duped some 70,000 unsuspecting individuals out of a cool $147 million to invest in USFIA.
2020-2-20 20:34 | |
|
|
OneCoin associate Mark Scott was charged with two counts of money laundering totaling $400 million. Now, one of the enablers of Crypto’s biggest scam wants the charges against him dropped. OneCoin Aide Claims ‘Insufficient’ Evidence Mark Scott was found guilty by a jury last November of two counts of money laundering (wire fraud and bank fraud) for OneCoin and its elusive founder Ruja Ignatova totaling $400 million.
2020-2-5 16:00 | |
|
|
Crypto Capital co-founder Reginald Fowler pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business Friday. Additional charges were dropped.
2020-1-18 23:15 | |
|
|
Patrick McDonnell was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison and ordered to pay victims $225,000 after pleading guilty to charges he defrauded investors in his crypto trading platform, CabbageTech.
2020-1-17 01:41 | |
|
|
Crypto Capital principal Reginald Fowler is expected to plead guilty to at least one charge stemming from allegations he ran an unlicensed money services business.
2019-12-20 01:33 | |
|
|
Dennis Blieden stands to face 22 years behind bars after embezzling $22 million while serving as the vice president of finance and accounting at StyleHaul, a digital marketing firm. The professional poker player pleaded guilty to the charges, and his sentencing awaits him on March 20, 2020.
2019-11-26 22:34 | |
|
|
A U.S. man has pleaded guilty to having embezzled millions from his former employer and splashing the funds on personal expenses and crypto-funded online poker.
2019-11-26 16:45 | |
|
|
OneCoin’s lawyer, Mark S. Scott was found guilty of helping Co-Founder, Ruja Ignatova who remains at large, launder $400 million. As for his cut of the pie, news outlet, Coin Telegraph disclosed that it amounted to some $50 million.
2019-11-22 17:49 | |
|
|
Asa Saint Clair, the President of the UN affiliate World Sports Alliance has pleaded “not guilty” in the fraud case of selling cryptocurrency. The man has been put on household arrest after he bought a one-way plane ticket to Madagascar while being investigated.
2019-11-15 00:07 | |
|
|
A former attorney from Locke Lord LLP pled not guilty on a new indictment that further charged him with bank fraud and laundering $400 million related to a widely known cryptocurrency scam, OneCoin.
2019-10-12 22:06 | |
|
|
There aren’t many areas of modern society unaffected by the draconian war on drugs, and non-violent crypto exchange is no exception. Two San Diego men in their twenties reportedly pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of money laundering conspiracy, for selling cannabis on the darknet for bitcoin and operating an unlicensed crypto exchange service.
2019-10-2 16:00 | |
|
|
Leading crypto asset exchange platform Binance has provided information to the UK police force to help bring a fraudster to justice. The unnamed Bulgarian individual pleaded guilty to five counts of fraud and received a custodial sentence for his role in numerous phishing scams.
2019-9-27 01:00 | |
|
|
Two crypto ICO advisors face up to 20 years imprisonment if found guilty of extortion of $13 million USD from a crypto startup. In a new development, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two fintech entrepreneurs over counts of extortion of an Ethereum (ETH) based crypto startup. The two, Steven Nerayoff and Michael Hlady, […]
2019-9-19 18:30 | |
|
|
A man from Los Angeles agrees to plead guilty to charge for running an unlicensed crypto exchange without an effective AML program.
2019-8-26 09:00 | |
|
|
The government of the United States, via the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), has decided to blacklist three crypto addresses this week. According to the institution, the owners of these crypto addresses were guilty of money laundering and drug smuggling.
2019-8-22 01:15 | |
|
|
California resident Sky Justin Gornik has been convicted of selling drugs for cryptocurrencies in darknet markets. According to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice, the man aged 39 pleaded guilty to using the Alpha Bay, Trade Route, Abraxas, Evolution, Outlaw Market, and Dream Market trading floors to trade fentanyl, carfentanil, ketamine, oxycodone, amphetamine, […]
2019-8-21 21:24 | |
|
|
19-year-old Elliot Gunton of Mounteney Close, UK, has pleaded guilty to supplying crypto hacking services and online personal data in exchange for cryptocurrency.
2019-8-17 23:45 | |
|
|
A couple based out of California has pleaded guilty to distributing drugs via a dark-web marketplace in exchange for cryptocurrencies
2019-8-8 00:45 | |
|
|
As per an all new announcement issued by the United States Department of Justice yesterday afternoon, William Green — a 46-year-old resident of New Jersey resident — has been found guilty of operating a crypto exchange without a license by a federal grand jury.
2019-7-25 20:07 | |
|
|
Dennis Blieden, a former executive who worked at StyleHaul, a company focused on digital marketing, has been charged with embezzlement. According to the prosecution, he was guilty of embezzling around $22 million USD when he worked on the company.
2019-7-13 23:50 | |
|
|
Patrick McDonnell, a New York resident who goes by the nickname of “the Coyote of Wall Street” recently pleaded guilty to a cryptocurrency related wire fraud in federal court in Brooklyn. This, according to a report by Bloomberg, June 22, 2019.
2019-6-24 19:00 | |
|
|
The operator of the CabbageTech cryptocurrency investment scheme has pleaded guilty to wire fraud
2019-6-24 19:30 | |
|
|
By CCN Markets: Renwick Haddow, the operator of the fake crypto trading platform Bitcoin Store and the fraudulent shared office space Bar Works, admitted to the charges against him with one of his fellow collaborators found guilty by US court.
2019-6-18 17:42 | |
|
|
By CCN: Konstantin Ignatov, the CEO of the multi-billion-dollar “crypto” Ponzi scheme OneCoin, has pleaded not guilty to wire fraud. According to court documents, Ignatov entered the plea during a May 28 preliminary hearing via conference call.
2019-6-8 01:20 | |
|
|
By CCN: According to self-declared Bitcoin creator Craig Wright, everyone who runs a Lightning node, uses privacy-centric cryptocurrency Monero, or uses mixing services like CashShuffle will be guilty of money laundering and eventually suffer the brutal legal consequences.
2019-6-5 19:15 | |
|
|
$nbsp; By CCN: Mark Karpeles, disgraced CEO of the infamous Mt. Gox crypto exchange, has revealed new plans in the blockchain space. According to Associated Press, he will launch a new venture with a view to making Japan a “global leader in blockchain.
2019-6-5 12:36 | |
|
|
It has been recently revealed that an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraudster case has made its way to the US court. In particular, the Founder of the proclaimed crypto projects, REcoin and Diamond Reserve Club, Maksim Zaslavskiy pleaded guilty for having committed fraud reports Decrypt Media.
2019-5-18 21:09 | |
|
|
By CCN: An Australian woman who faked cancer and duped people into buying her products, Belle Gibson, may have used the proceeds of her fraudulent scheme to trade crypto among other assets. This emerged after she appeared in court over her failure to pay a $285,000 (AUD$410,000) fine, per The Guardian.
2019-5-15 17:02 | |
|
|
In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded guilty to running a drug trafficking business that laundered millions of dollars in Western Union and crypto payments.
2019-4-25 20:37 | |
|
|
Two men accused of illicitly selling steroids and controlled substances and laundering millions of dollars have pleaded guilty in New York
2019-4-24 15:19 | |
|
|
Two US men have pleaded guilty to running a steroid and controlled substance business that laundered millions of dollars in cryptocurrency and Western Union payments. Representing the first conviction for money laundering involving cryptocurrency by New York State prosecutors, the defendants sold their products, which they made, marketed, and shipped, on a website they controlled called ‘NextDayGear,’ as well as on the dark web.
2019-4-24 12:58 | |
|
|
Joel Ortiz, the 21-year-old student who was accused of stealing over $7. 5 million in digital assets via a SIM swapping operation, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
2019-4-23 15:27 | |
|
|
Bitcoin trader Jacob Burrell Campos was sentenced on April 8, 2019, to serve a two-year prison sentence and to forfeit more than $800,000 “for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.
2019-4-13 18:54 | |
|
|
As part of an ongoing criminal case, a judge in Canada has ordered that a local online drug dealer must forfeit about 281. 41 bitcoin (worth about $1. 4 million) after it was found that he used the cryptocurrency to fund his illegal activities.
2019-4-5 20:02 | |
|
|
Depending on what country you live in, your cryptocurrency will be subject to different tax rules. The questions below address implications within the United States, specifically, but similar issues arise around the world.
2019-3-29 18:20 | |
|
|
An ICO fraud case has concluded with a guilty plea. Jared Rice Sr. , the former CEO of decentralized bank startup AriseBank and creator of the AriseCoin, has pleaded guilty to cheating investors out of $4.
2019-3-23 16:35 | |
|
|
Even as every aspect of the crypto industry becomes more advanced and developed, so does the prosecution of crime relating to the industry. This is why there has been a sharp rise in people being arrested and prosecuted for SIM swapping, impersonation of other firms and running crypto scams. Such is the case of AriseBank […]
2019-3-21 22:25 | |
|
|
After admitting to deceiving investors, the CEO of AriseBank will likely now face up to 20 years in prison
2019-3-21 18:32 | |
|
|
Everyone knows the name “John McAfee,” though the majority of these people probably know him from the massive antivirus company he created several decades ago. In 2012, he became notable for leaving his former home Belize when the police were looking to question him, regarding the murder of a nearby neighbor. Ultimately, it was released […]
2019-3-17 18:10 | |
|
|
The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
|
|
The former head of Mt.Gox, the cryptocurrency exchange that was subject to one of the most high-profile hacks in… The post Tokyo Court Finds Former Head of Crypto Exchange Mt. Gox Guilty appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-3-15 09:03 | |
|
|
The way to bitcoin-utopia is laden with regulatory issues and scam artists. In a recent confession, Morgan Rockoons the founder of Bitcointopia and a well-known crypto activist has conceded to both charges against him in two bitcoin-related cases.
2019-3-10 22:08 | |
|
|
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon is in talks to plead guilty in a U.S. criminal case tied to the $40 billion Terra collapse. Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon may plead guilty in a U.S. criminal case over the 2022 collapse…
In a puzzling development, two prominent crypto figures have voiced contrasting opinions over the settlement deal between Galaxy Digital and the Office of the New York Attorney General (NYAG). On March 28, it was revealed the crypto investment firm led by Michael Novogratz has struck agreements to pay a $200 million fine to the State […]
Terraform labs, the Singapore-based company behind the Terra blockchain and its associated cryptocurrencies TerraUSD and Luna, is launching a crypto asset loss claim portal on March 31—claims to be submitted by April 30.
South Korea’s Supreme Court has sided with lower courts in deciding that TerraUSD and LUNA do not meet the criteria for financial investment products. Korea‘s Supreme Court has ruled that the collapsed stablecoin TerraUSD (USTC) and its sister token Terra…
Montenegro’s Constitutional Court has rejected an appeal by crypto mogul Do Kwon, paving the way for a decision on his extradition to either the U.S. or South Korea. Do Kwon, founder of Terraform Labs, has lost his appeal in Montenegro’s…
Terra Luna Classic’s price rose for the second consecutive day as token burn activity accelerated this week. Terra Luna Classic (LUNC), the remnant of the collapsed Terra network, reached an intraday high of $0.00009217, bringing its market cap to $500…