SEC Charges Hawaiian Resident for Bizarre Crypto Scam

The SEC has charged Hawaiian resident Jeremy Koski with securities fraud for allegedly manipulating equity investment funds on the Nasdaq and making false promises about cryptocurrency conversion.

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Former crypto bigwig SBF to face fresh charges days after a revoked bail

Former crypto influencer - SBF will be facing new charges for using customers funds for political donations The FTX founder is currently jailed at Metropolitan Detention Center after having hisThe post Former crypto bigwig SBF to face fresh charges days after a revoked bail appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Securitize Ventures Beyond The U.S, Extends Tokenized Coins To The U.K

Securitize, a blockchain company headquartered in the United States and renowned for its expertise in tokenizing real-world assets, has expanded its operations to Europe. Related Reading: US Authorities Drop Charges Against SBF Involving Campaign Finance Funds The company entered the Spanish General Secretariat of the Treasury and International Finance’s specialized sandbox for digital asset securities. […]

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US Authorities Drop Charges Against SBF Involving Campaign Finance Funds

In the latest court filing, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) announced its decision to withdraw the campaign finance charge against Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX.

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Prime Trust Put Into Receivership Amid Shortfall in Funds, Charges It Misused Customer Money

Crypto custodian Prime Trust has been ordered by the Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, where the company has its headquarters, to be put into receivership after the state ordered the custodian to cease all activities amid a shortfall of customer funds.

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Georgian billionaire’s legal team denounces charges as unsubstantiated and politically motivated

Following last week’s charges against  George Bachiashvili, the Georgian billionaire’s legal defense team has denounced the allegations of misappropriation of funds and money laundering against him as “absurd.

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SEC Levies Charges Against BKCoin Management for Commingling Users’ Funds

Coinspeaker SEC Levies Charges Against BKCoin Management for Commingling Users’ Funds The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed an emergency action against Miami Investment Adviser, BKCoin Management LLC.

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SEC charges former FTX exec Nishad Singh with defrauding investors

Nishad Singh is a former co-lead of engineering at FTX. SEC says the former exec created the software that Sam Bankman-Fried used to divert FTX customer funds to Alameda Research. Singh withdrew $6 million from FTX for personal use, according to the SEC complaint.

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FTX: Nishad Singh pleads guilty to criminal charges

Nishad Singh pleads guilty to six criminal counts Singh was accused of creating the code that let Alameda borrow an unlimited amount of funds Nishad Singh, the former director of engineeringThe post FTX: Nishad Singh pleads guilty to criminal charges appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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CFTC Charges California Firm and CEO With Fraud, Misappropriation of Digital Assets

The commission alleges the defendants fraudulently solicited over $7 million worth of bitcoin and ether and misappropriated a portion of the funds in a Ponzi-like scheme.

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SEC Charges Sam Bankman-Fried for Abusing $1.8B of Investor Funds

Sam Bankman-Fried is charged with abusing $1.8 billion in equity investments.

The post SEC Charges Sam Bankman-Fried for Abusing $1.8B of Investor Funds appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Sam Bankman-Fried denies misusing customer funds

FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried has repeatedly refuted US charges that he misused $8 billion in client funds.

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US Investigators Subpoena Hedge Funds in Binance Money-Laundering Probe: Report

Authorities have not yet brought charges against the company, which has faced intense scrutiny following competitor FTX's collapse in November.

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U.S. Investigators Subpoena Hedge Funds in Binance Money-Laundering Probe: Report

Authorities have not yet brought charges against the company, which has faced intense scrutiny following competitor FTX's collapse in November.

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Crypto Biz: SBF has his day in court; Barry Silbert accused of ‘stalling’ over frozen funds

The founder of FTX pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges related to the collapse of crypto exchange FTX.

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Founder Of Multi-Million Dollar NFT Rugpull ‘Mutant Ape Planet’ Facing Fraud Charges

Federal charges are coming down on a twenty-four year old NFT project developer who rug pulled his NFT collection, running off with nearly $3M in funds. It’s the latest federal pursuit of crypto rugpullers, an endeavor that is relatively new for federal bodies when it comes to NFTs.

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SEC files charges against CFO who embezzled money to invest in crypto

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed fraud charges against a CFO who embezzled funds to invest in crypto, according to a January 3 press release. The post SEC files charges against CFO who embezzled money to invest in crypto appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Released on $250M Bail Secured by Parents

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried appeared in U.S. federal court Thursday on charges that he was the mastermind behind the fraud and illicit movement of customer funds inside his former crypto empire, and a judge agreed that he can be released on $250 million bail.

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FTX, Alameda execs plead guilty to fraud charges: Community responds

From wondering where the funds are to ridiculing Caroline Ellison’s trading skills, crypto community members reacted in various ways to news of the executives pleading guilty.

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SEC charges SBF with defrauding investors

SEC states Sam Bankman-Fried “concealed his diversion of FTX customers’ funds to crypto trading firm Alameda Research while raising more than $1. 8 billion from investors The Securities and Exchange Commission on December 13, charge SBF with “orchestrating a scheme to defraud equity investors in FTX Trading Ltd (FTX)” Since May, 2019, FTX raised over $1.

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US SEC Charges Sam Bankman-Fried for Defrauding FTX Investors

Bankman-Fried illegitimately used customer funds to support his lavish lifestyle and make political donations, the regulator alleged.

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Ethereum gas fees surge as Binance moves funds for PoR

According to reports, Ethereum gas charges recently soared to about 233 GWEI. While the report talked of Binance's surge in value, reports noted that the gas fees plunged to as low as 14 GWEI. The plunge in recent hours is only equivalent to a 0.6% drop.

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India’s ED freezes $46 million of Vauld’s funds on money-laundering charges

Singapore-based Crypto Lender Vauld is facing money laundering charges in India after $46.5 million (3.70 billion Indian rupees) was frozen from its local entity, Flipvolt Technology. The post India’s ED freezes $46 million of Vauld’s funds on money-laundering charges appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Harmony Dangles $1M Reward For Return Of $100M Stolen Funds – Is It Enough?

Harmony Protocol wants its money back. Seriously – and without any charges. Harmony has offered a $1 million bounty for anyone who can provide information that can lead to the retrieval of the stolen funds from the hack of its Horizon bridge.

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Bitfinex: US Marks Largest Single Seizure Of Bitcoin In DOJ’s History With 94,000 BTC Seized

The couple Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were arrested on charges of being answerable for the 2016 hack on Bitfinex. The couple is accused of attempting to launder more than 119,000 BTC of stolen funds from the exchange.

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Former Cryptopia Employee, Admits to Stealing $175k Worth of Crypto from the Defunct Exchange

Former Cryptopia Ltd. employee pleads guilty to stealing NZD 250,000 worth of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies from the exchange. The employee returned the funds and will not face any charges.

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SEC Officially Charges Ripple Executives for Unregistered Securities Sale

The news comes after recent rumors that the SEC was preparing to file these charges, something Garlinghouse felt was unjust. The SEC is accusing Ripple and associated parties of raising over $1. 3 billion in funds through the sale of  ‘ongoing digital asset securities offerings.

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Mastermind of Bitcoin Mining Ponzi Scheme Extradited to the US: $20 Million in Victims’ Funds Laundered

The US government says it has extradited Gutemberg Dos Santos, the co-founder of the Airbit Club Ponzi scheme from Panama and he now awaits his trial in a Manhattan court. Dos Santos is facing charges relating to his role in perpetuating a “cryptocurrency” scam which defrauded victims of “tens of millions of dollars.

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US Charges 6 With Laundering Mexican Drug Cartel Cash Using Crypto and Casinos

The U.S. Department of Justice charged the six individuals for alleged involvement in laundering funds from Mexican drug cartels after an investigation spanning years.

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Crypto Exchanges Line Up as BitMEX Outflows Mount

Money is on the move out of BitMEX, and other exchanges are lining up for the funds. Now that BitMEX and Arthur Hayes are facing charges, traders are seeing the writing on the wall and fleeing for greener pastures.

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SEC Charges Director Ryan Felton, Rapper T.I. for Shilling Fraudulent Crypto Offering

Rapper T.I. (Joseph Harris Jr.) and film producer Ryan Felton and six others were charged by the SEC for misappropriating funds from two initial coin offerings.

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SEC Charges Rapper TI With Securities Violations for Promoting 2017 ICO

The SEC alleged film producer Ryan Felton misappropriated funds from two separate initial coin offerings, and charged rapper TI with boosting one of them.

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Self-Help Firm That Mostly Took Bitcoin as Payment Mostly Just Helped Itself, SEC Charges

Ninety-two percent of Mindset 24 investors allegedly lost some of their funds. They'd paid in over a million dollars, mostly in bitcoin.

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Texas Man Nabs $1 Mln in PPP Loans to Invest in Cryptocurrency, Faces Federal Charges

The DOJ announces fraud charges against a Texas man who collected PPP funds to invest in crypto

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US SEC Charges Shopin Founder With Orchestrating Fraudulent $42 Million ICO

Shopin Founder and CEO Eran Eyal allegedly spent $500,000 of investor funds on personal expenses

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OneCoin Update: Former Locke Lord Attorney Faces Laundering Charges

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.

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SEC charges ICOBox and its founder for unregistered $14 million offering

SEC charges ICOBox and its founder for unregistered $14 million offering - CryptoNinjas Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U. S. charged ICOBox and its founder Nikolay Evdokimov for conducting an illegal $14 million securities offering of ICOBox’s digital tokens (ICOS) and for acting as unregistered brokers for other digital asset offerings.

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Crypto Crime: 21-Year-Old Australian Woman Faces 53 Charges for Laundering Stolen Funds with Cryptocurrency

Jasmine Vella-Arpaci, who was part of the major identity fraud ring, faces up to 53 charges after stealing millions of dollars

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Dutch Man Arrested for $111 Million Fake Mining Scheme

On March 21, 2019, Dutch news outlet NL Times reported that “Berry van M. ,” a 33-year-old Dutch businessman and the operator of now-defunct trading platform Koinz Trading, has been arrested on charges of deceiving investors with a bogus bitcoin mining scheme.

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Bitfinex Releases White Paper for LEO Token Sale

Bitfinex is forging forward despite its ongoing row with the authorities, and it's looking for investors to support its efforts. Today, May 8, 2019, iFinex, the operator and parent company of the popular cryptocurrency exchange, released a private token sale white paper, putting to rest rumors of its Initial Exchange Offering (IEO).

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Bitfinex Plans to Recover Missing Money With $1 Billion Token Sale

Just over a week ago, Bitfinex faced accusations of lost funds and charges of a cover-up. Now, its parent company, iFinex, is planning to temporarily recover those funds through a token sale and buyback.

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New York Makes First Money Laundering Conviction Involving Cryptocurrency

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.

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21-Year-Old SIM-Swapping Mastermind Is Jailed for 10 Years

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.

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Bitcoin [BTC]: Danish man sentenced to four years in prison for money laundering using Bitcoin

A 33-year-old Danish man was sentenced to four years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of laundering Bitcoin. According to the verdict, the perpetrator bought Bitcoins from funds he received from identifiable criminal sources and sent it to unidentified offshore accounts.

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Coinbase Custody Now Supports Zilliqa (ZIL) Transactions for Deposits and Withdrawals

One of the biggest names in the crypto ecosystem, Coinbase offers custody for cryptocurrency assets for institutions in the form of their custody program, which charges a setup fee of $100,000 and a minimum holding of $10million so you can see it is aimed at banks, hedge funds and other financial institutions who would require […]

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Karpeles Beats Embezzlement Charges in Mt Gox Ruling

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.

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New Shakepay Feature Turns Your Spare Change Into Bitcoin

Mobile cryptocurrency exchange and peer-to-peer wallet Shakepay has announced a new product that allows its Canadian customers to buy bitcoin with spare change. Dubbed "ShakePay Change," the pre-launch of the service was announced in a Medium post.

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Former Mt. Gox CEO Could Face 10 Years in Jail Over Embezzlement

Japanese prosecutors are seeking a 10-year jail term for Mark Karpeles, the former CEO of Mt. Gox. The embattled Frenchman, who has been previously accused of diverting company money for prostitutes, business acquisitions and luxury items, is facing charges of transferring $3 million of client funds to his own account for investment in a software […] The post Former Mt.

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Prosecutors Seek 10-Year Jail Sentence for Karpeles Over Mt. Gox Embezzlement

Former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles has run into trouble in the Japanese legal system, and prosecutors are pursuing a 10-year jail sentence for alleged embezzlement during his tenure at Mt.

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