2020-9-1 19:00 |
The way law enforcement agencies deal with seized crypto could indicate their de-facto acceptance of the asset class.
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Police in South Korea has seized Coinbit, the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the country, over allegations of wash trading activity, amounting to over 100 billion WON ($84 million) in faked income.
2020-8-28 01:31 | |
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Police in South Korea on Wednesday raided and seized the offices of Coinbit, the country’s third largest crypto exchange, over allegations it faked 99% of its trading volume. According to a report from Seoul News, local police took control of Coinbit’s headquarters in Gangnam as well as other sites elsewhere.
2020-8-28 07:45 | |
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South Korea's third-largest crypto exchange has reportedly been seized by police over allegations it faked most of its trading volume.
2020-8-26 12:35 | |
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Venezuela has blocked the main opposition from distributing $18 million worth of cash previously seized by the U. S. from the Nicolas Maduro government. The money is being dished out via peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Airtm to 62,000 healthcare workers starting Monday.
2020-8-26 09:30 | |
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The Japanese court seized $46,000 after a Hokkaido doctor was arrested for purchasing stolen... The post Japanese authorities seize crypto from account linked to the 2018 Coincheck hack appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-8-21 11:57 | |
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The German police have seized millions in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash from the defunct...
The post Germany seizes nearly $30M in crypto from movie2k.to appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-8-7 11:43 | |
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Bitcoin investor Jim Harper has sued the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), its commissioner, and a number of federal agents. He alleged that they unlawfully seized his private financial information from three cryptocurrency exchanges.
2020-7-17 21:14 | |
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A $14 million smart contract scam has been tracked down by the Chinese police. According to reports from a Chinese media outlet, the team of scammers who were said to have been situated in their headquarters in the Eastern Chinese province of Fujian was infiltrated by police officials who arrested the perpetrators. Allegations go as […]
2020-7-11 14:35 | |
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The novel Chinese scam saw perpetrators create fake crypto assets to fleece investors seeking arbitrage opportunities.
2020-7-9 13:30 | |
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The U.S. Marshals Service is on the hunt for a contractor to help it store and auction cryptocurrency it seizes in operations against criminals.
2020-6-10 11:01 | |
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Wilsons Auctions, a leading auctions company in Ireland and the UK, announced plans to auction over $125,000 worth of seized bitcoin and other digital currencies. Although not the company’s first crypto auction sale, this is the first online public bitcoin auction in Ireland.
2020-3-10 00:00 | |
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Chinese police has seized roughly 7,000 crypto mining units, which illegally used electric power
2019-12-23 18:38 | |
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Ugandan police have reportedly seized Samson Lwanga, a director of Dunamiscoins crypto scam which managed to get $2.7 million from the victims
2019-12-11 16:23 | |
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During a movie piracy setup crackdown, Hamilton Police seized $6. 7 million in cryptocurrency from a software programmer. According to recent reports, law enforcement officers in Hamilton, New Zealand successfully arrested a 31-year old programmer and movie pirate Jaron David McIvor.
2019-11-23 15:30 | |
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More than $6 mln worth of crpypto has been confiscated from Jaron David McIvor, a modest programmer who laundered money through a website with pirated movies
2019-11-22 20:50 | |
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Utilizing blockchain technology can serve many different purposes. The new smart contract written by the SIRPA is rather interesting to take note of in that regard. It marks the first time a smart contract has been developed on Tezos by a public authority.
2019-11-21 22:00 | |
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The Australian E-Crime Squad detectives have caught a 38-year-old man from Cairnlea. He was conducting unregistered crypto exchanges. The arrest followed an investigation that started after illegal activity was registered at a cryptocurrency ATM close to Braybrook, not too far from Cairnlea.
2019-11-13 03:35 | |
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Australian Detectives known as the ‘E-Crime Squad’ have arrested a man for providing unregistered cryptocurrency services. Authorities charged the man for breaking anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
2019-11-12 13:20 | |
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Russian regulators will begin developing proposals for legislation allowing confiscation of crypto assets seized in crime investigations.
2019-11-8 20:40 | |
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The British Columbia Securities Commission says it has seized Einstein Exchange after the crypto company said it planned to shut down operations in the coming weeks.
2019-11-5 23:59 | |
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Following the arrest of Crypto Capital President Ivan Manuel Molina Lee, Bitfinex issued a statement regarding their relationship and seized funds. The post Crypto Capital President Arrested, Bitfinex Releases Statement appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.
2019-10-26 22:43 | |
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According to new court filings, Bitfinex’s parent company, iFinex Inc, has filed a discovery with relation to the $880 million seized from the exchange and its partner companies. These funds were held by Crypto Capital on behalf of Bitfinex and was seized by the FBI amid shadow banking allegations, as revealed by court filings, OctoberRead MoreRead More.
2019-10-21 15:00 | |
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Unicef announced Wednesday that it has launched a cryptocurrency fund and become the first United Nations organization to hold onto its crypto donations. Without converting them into fiat, the fund will hold two cryptocurrencies and disburse them to support projects benefiting children worldwide.
2019-10-10 19:48 | |
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Unicef announced Wednesday that it has launched a cryptocurrency fund and become the first United Nations organization to hold onto its crypto donations. Without converting them into fiat, the fund will hold two cryptocurrencies and disburse them to support projects benefiting children worldwide.
2019-10-9 19:48 | |
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The effects of banking restrictions by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have reached an Indian police department. The police sold some cryptocurrencies they seized only to find out that they cannot access the Rs 8.
2019-10-4 06:10 | |
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The police of Pune, India, can’t transfer $1.2 million in seized crypto due to India’s anti-cryptocurrency laws
2019-10-4 02:21 | |
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The authorities in India appear to have fallen victim to their own anti-crypto regulations. Money seized from a convicted Bitcoin scammer is currently sitting trapped in a frozen State Bank of India of bank account.
2019-10-4 23:00 | |
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Police seized a crypto thief after he mistakenly sent an apology email to a detective heading the investigation, instead of the victim
2019-9-3 02:55 | |
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The Security Service of Ukraine confiscated crypto mining equipment from a single office in the administrative wing of the South Ukrainian Nuclear Power Plant. The seized equipment included 16 GPU video cards, 7 hard drives, 2 solid-state drives, a motherboard, extension cords, and a router.
2019-8-23 19:49 | |
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Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright issued another ominous warning to crypto scammers: Your con game is over, and your bitcoin can be seized. In a foreboding August 2 blog post, Wright says the grifters in the crypto space are gasping their last breaths because their house of cards will soon crumble.
2019-8-4 23:30 | |
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Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright issued another ominous warning to crypto scammers: Your con game is over, and your bitcoin can be seized. In a foreboding August 2 blog post, Wright says the grifters in the crypto space are gasping their last breaths because their house of cards will soon crumble.
2019-8-3 23:30 | |
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Authorities in Iran have reportedly seized roughly 1,000 bitcoin mining machines from abandoned factories.
2019-6-29 22:40 | |
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The world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing service, Bestmixer.io, has just been shut down by the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation… The post $200M in Crypto Has Been Just Seized By Dutch Law Enforcement appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-23 16:33 | |
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The Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has shut down cryptomixing site Bestmixer. io. According to local media, Dutch authorities moved to shut down the site on May 22, 2019, as part of a joint operation with police agencies from several European nations, including France, Latvia and Luxembourg.
2019-5-22 21:13 | |
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Did crypto mogul John McAfee fall overboard the Freedom Boat? Or was he seized by the IRS? The rumors started mounting after a tweet from his account stated “developing events have made it necessary for John McAfee to go dark.
2019-5-17 16:00 | |
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A website that provided a link between the regular internet and dark web marketplaces offering illegal goods and services in exchange for crypto has been seized. Deep Dot Web went down earlier today with a seizure notice detailing the authorities involved with the bust.
2019-5-8 00:00 | |
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The German police, along with Europol, have taken down servers of the Wall Street dark web marketplace, with six figures in crypto seized
2019-5-4 18:54 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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By CCN: ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees made a valid observation on Twitter today, pointing out that there’s some degree of irony in the charges potentially facing embattled Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex: Tether had the cash reserves, despite wide speculation that the company had issued far more crypto tokens than it could settle.
2019-4-27 00:35 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has come out to defend its position after the New York State Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the company and Tether for fraud. Bitfinex maintains that the report claiming that it has lost $850 million at Crypto Capital were false.
2019-4-26 13:59 | |
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Following the New York Attorney General’s accusations of a $850M cover-up by Bitfinex, the company has issued its response. Binfinex refutes the claims as ‘riddled with false assertions’ and that the funds are not lost.
2019-4-26 10:00 | |
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Over a billion dollars have been raised for the reconstruction of Notre Dame. People with deep pockets have seized the opportunity to throw their money around, and Binance refuses to miss a marketing opportunity.
2019-4-18 17:56 | |
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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 | |
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The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, better known as Europol, announced on March 26, 2019, that it has made an ongoing partnership with law enforcement from Canada, the United States and the member states of the European Union to target buyers and sellers of illegal items on the dark web.
2019-3-28 20:24 | |
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According to the Ukranian cyber police, an unnamed man infected a bunch of his websites with Wannacry-like malware. Police Search Reveals Intentional Infection An unreliable Google translation makes it sound as if the man’s home had been invaded and police were investigating when they discovered his activities.
2019-3-28 22:14 | |
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The U. S. Marshals is looking to hire an individual who can manage cryptocurrencies for the Asset Forfeiture Division. Over the last few years, the law enforcement agency has seized thousands of bitcoins from a variety of investigations.
2019-3-10 02:40 | |
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The U. S. Government missed out on a more than half a billion dollar opportunity. Figures released by the website Bitcoin Seized suggests that had Uncle Sam decided to hodl onto all the Bitcoin (BTC) it had seized over the past four years, it would have made a very good markup indeed.
2019-3-2 21:13 | |
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Wilsons Auctions on Feb. 28 successfully sold off 315 bitcoin seized by the Belgian police from dark web drug dealers. The 24-hour online auction attracted interest from buyers from 110 countries.
2019-3-1 18:10 | |
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