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The Terraform Labs CEO is now facing fraud charges in South Korea, the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors in New York. origin »
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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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Nishad Singh, the former director of engineering for defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to fraud charges lodged against him by U.S. prosecutors for his role in the alleged scheme.
2023-3-1 03:56 | |
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Bankman-Fried’s charges have been expanded in the latest indictment brought forth by federal prosecutors.
2023-2-24 02:22 | |
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Nishad Singh, the bankrupt exchange’s former director of engineering, went to a proffer session with prosecutors last month and is reportedly nearing a plea deal.
2023-2-18 00:40 | |
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United States prosecutors have asked that the fraud cases against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried not proceed until the conclusion of the government’s criminal case against him, according to court documents.
2023-2-8 01:16 | |
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Singh was integral in the founding of FTX, faces charges Code was written to help Alameda take out unlimited line of credit Singh and Gary Wang borrowed hundreds of millions US authorities are ramping up pressure on Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle as they scrutinize Nishad Singh, a former close FTX associate according to insiders.
2023-1-7 11:20 | |
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Karl Greenwood, a co-founder of the OneCoin pyramid scheme, pleaded guilty to federal U.S. charges as per a press release by the Department of Justice. Prosecutors claim that the purported cryptocuThe post OneCoin co-founder Karl Greenwood pleads guilty, details inside appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-12-17 12:30 | |
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One of the founders behind OneCoin pleaded guilty to federal U.S. charges on Friday after one of the largest financial scams of all time, according to the Department of Justice. The purported cryptocurrency project was fraudulent from its 2014 beginnings, prosecutors said, with OneCoin – co-founded by Karl Greenwood – setting up a pyramid scheme to market it to millions of people, generating as much as $4 billion in revenue.
2022-12-17 22:13 | |
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U.S. prosecutors revealed a litany of charges against Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX, including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and campaign finance violations early Tuesday.
2022-12-14 17:53 | |
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Industry woes widened on Monday with a Reuters report that U.S. prosecutors are considering criminal charges against Binance and individual senior executives, including CEO Changpeng Zhao. Crypto Markets Today is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter diving into what happened in today's crypto markets.
2022-12-13 01:15 | |
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Binance and its executives could be facing charges including unlicensed money transmission, money laundering conspiracy, and criminal sanctions violationsif prosecutors can agree on filing them. Reuters vs. Binance The FTX...
2022-12-13 20:15 | |
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Department of Justice prosecutors split on whether enough evidence to file criminal charges against Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Binance’s position in the industry is so dominant that any story on them is now a big deal Regardless on the charges, Binance’s proof of reserves failing to satisfy transparency demands Crypto needs to change its entire […] The post Binance CEO Zhao could face criminal charges – what does this mean for crypto? appeared first on CoinJournal.
2022-12-12 19:03 | |
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Some U.S. federal prosecutors are reportedly ready to bring criminal charges against Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao
2022-12-12 16:47 | |
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Prosecutors in Texas have slapped 21 U.S. citizens with an assortment of criminal charges for allegedly helping various transnational criminal rings launder their ill-gotten gains using cryptocurrency
2022-12-2 00:08 | |
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South Korean prosecutors are seeking an eight years sentence for the founder of Bithumb, Lee Jung-hoon, on charges that he defrauded the chairman of cosmetic surgery company BK Group, Kim Byung Gun, of 100 billion won (around $70 million).
2022-10-27 00:21 | |
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The Terraform Labs co-founder faces charges in South Korea relating to the crash of the Terra ecosystems’ cryptocurrencies.
2022-9-26 05:35 | |
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The Seoul Southern District Prosecutor’s Office in Korea is investigating whether it can bring charges of a Ponzi scheme against Terraform Lab’s CEO, Do Kwon. The post Korean Prosecutors Consider Bringing Ponzi Scheme Charges Against Terraform Labs’ CEO appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-5-21 14:30 | |
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Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes yielded himself to U. S. authorities in Hawaii on Tuesday. The said move came six months after BitMEX was accused by federal prosecutors of circumventing the U. S.
2021-4-7 13:05 | |
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Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn bust one ‘Jay Manzini’ yesterday on charges of perpetuating a wire fraud using Bitcoin, city outlet Daily News said this morning. The post U.S. feds bust Instagram star for promoting Bitcoin scams appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2021-3-26 19:08 | |
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A U. S. federal judge has rejected a motion filed by a former Ethereum Foundation developer over allegations of assisting North Korea to bypass sanctions. Prosecutors claim, Virgil Griffith, aided the regime by providing critical information on cryptocurrencies.
2021-1-30 17:00 | |
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Arthur Hayes, chief executive officer of bitcoin derivatives exchange Bitmex, is stepping down from his position a week after U. S. prosecutors filed criminal charges against him. Hayes is leaving together with other top executives who are facing similar charges.
2020-10-8 17:00 | |
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Prosecutors in the United States filed criminal charges against BitMEX, accusing it of violating the federal Bank Secrecy Act. The CFTC has been investigating one of the biggest derivatives exchanges for some years now.
2020-10-3 19:31 | |
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BitMEX, the most widely utilized bitcoin margin trading platform, failed to enact proper compliance procedures and allowed unregistered trading, among other violations, according to US regulators. The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission has charged BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange, CEO Arthur Hayes, the firm’s owners (Samuel Reed and Ben Delo), and corporate entities (HDR Global Trading […]
2020-10-2 22:36 | |
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Manhattan prosecutors from the New York Southern District Court (NYSD) have unsealed indictment charges against Onecoin cofounder Sebastian Greenwood. The documents allege that Greenwood, alongside his accomplices Ruja Ignatova the ‘Crypto Queen’ and her brother Konstantin Ignatov, committed fraud on a multi-billion dollar level.
2020-4-13 03:00 | |
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French prosecutors have charged Vinnik on counts of extortion, aggravated money laundering, conspiracy and more.
2020-1-30 15:30 | |
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Hugh Brian Haney, a former narcotics dealer, has pled guilty to charges of laundering over $19 million USD of his profits that were raised illegally using Silk Road, a prominent dark web market. Now, according to the prosecutors of the Southern District of New York, a plea deal was struck and Haney will go to […]
2019-11-9 00:15 | |
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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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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 | |
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The United States prosecutors officially indict a man from Singapore for stealing Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing power to mine cryptocurrencies
2019-10-10 08:55 | |
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A woman accused of running a Bitcoin-powered fake ID ring pleaded guilty on Tuesday after authorities busted the operation last year. Among other charges, Sarah Alberts, 35, who is due to be sentenced on October 8, admitted to money laundering, reports say.
2019-7-3 13:24 | |
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South Korea’s crypto exchange giant, Bithumb and its top officials have been prosecuted on charges of failure to prevent hacking attacks and leakage of private data. Prosecutors are accusing the crypto exchange platform of leaking sensitive financial data on around 31,000 of its customers.
2019-6-22 00:33 | |
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By CCN: SIM hijacking has proven to be yet another lucrative way to steal crypto with millions of dollar now reported to have been stolen over the years with the amount that has gone unreported possibly eclipsing that.
2019-5-13 17:48 | |
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Prosecutors have opted to not appeal against the acquittal of former Mt. Gox CEO, Mark Karpeles, on charges of customer embezzlement, reports Japanese daily The Mainichi, March 29, 2019. Breathing Room for Mark Karpeles Ex-Mt.
2019-3-30 10:00 | |
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Embezzlement charges against Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the infamous Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, have been dropped, reported The Mainichi. Tokyo prosecutors had previously leveled charges of fraud, embezzlement and breach of trust on Karpeles.
2019-3-29 18:45 | |
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The former chief executive of shuttered bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox is going for the trifecta now that his trial is over. Mark Karpeles got off scot-free on charges of embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-30 17:25 | |
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Tokyo prosecutors have reportedly dropped plans to appeal the acquittal of former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles on charges of embezzlement
2019-3-29 04:30 | |
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Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots, could finally get a happy ending to his humiliating prostitution scandal. Florida prosecutors are offering to drop the charges — if Kraft admits that he would’ve been found guilty at trial.
2019-3-20 00:08 | |
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Japanese authorities in the city of Utsunomiya have charged an 18-year-old for stealing crypto from Monappy, a digital wallet service for MonaCoin. The unnamed teenager was reportedly referred to prosecutors in what is the country’s first case of charges being brought against a cryptocurrency hacker.
2019-3-18 02:08 | |
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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 | |
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The former owner of the now-defunct Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange, Mark Karpeles, has been sentenced to two and half years in prison by a prosecutors in Japan. The Tokyo District Court found him guilty for falsifying computer data in connection with the colossal heist, an event that saw half a billion dollars worth of bitcoin disappearRead MoreRead More.
2019-3-15 14:17 | |
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Following his arrest by authorities at LAX airport, Konstantin Ignatov, leader of the OneCoin ponzi scam, now faces charges. His sister, Ruja, who founded OneCoin, also faces multiple charges of fraud and money laundering — although currently remains at large.
2019-3-9 20:00 | |
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On March 8, the Department of Justice and the U. S. Attorney’s Office Southern District of New York (SDNY) announced that officials have indicted two of the top leaders of the notorious Onecoin project.
2019-3-9 14:25 | |
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Uber‘s been let off the hook by prosecutors in a case involving one of the company’s autonomous test cars that fatally struck a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona last year, reports Reuters. However, the back-up driver behind the wheel will likely be referred to local police for further investigation, and that could potentially see him face charges of vehicular manslaughter for the accidental killing of Elaine Herzberg.
2019-3-6 16:13 | |
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According to a recent report, Joel Ortiz, the 20-year-old student from Boston who was indicted by prosecutors in Santa Clara, California, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in what is believed to be the very first SIM swapping conviction in the United States.
2019-2-6 01:17 | |
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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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The Taiwanese authorities have officially pressed charges against the seven fraudsters who were arrested in June last year for allegedly running a bitcoin-powered Ponzi scheme, reported local news source Focus Taiwan on January 18, 2019.
2019-1-21 16:00 | |
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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 executives South Korea’s cryptocurrency exchange UPbit have been formally charged by the country’s prosecutors, CoinDesk reported. The Prosecutors’ Office of the southern district of Seoul has indicted three senior staff members, including founder Song Chi-Hyung, on charges of fraud.
2018-12-22 16:29 | |
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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.
2018-12-13 23:15 | |
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Nathaniel Chastain, a former product manager at OpenSea, will not face a retrial after federal prosecutors chose to drop their re-review of his insider trading case. Reports say the US Attorney’s Office reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Chastain that will lead to dismissal of the charges once the agreement runs its course. Related Reading: […]
The FTX rigmarole continues and this time, two top executives of the disgraced crypto empire have emerged from silence and are now in the custody of the U.S. authorities. If proven guilty of their misdeeds, the three masterminds of one of the biggest crypto exchanges in the world face a total of 275 years in […]
Glenn Arcaro, head of the North American division of BitConnect, pled guilty in US District Court to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The post North American BitConnect Head Pleads Guilty to Fraud appeared first on BeInCrypto.
A U. S. court has sentenced Jerry Ji Guo, a resident of San Francisco, to an effective six months in prison for his role in a fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO). In addition to the prison term, the court ordered Guo to pay over $4 million in restitution.
A U. S. court in Seattle has sentenced a former Microsoft engineer to 9 years in prison after finding him guilty of 18 federal felonies relating to his elaborate scheme to defraud the tech giant $10 million.
A Romanian man admitted Thursday to conspiring to engage in wire fraud and selling unregistered securities linked to Bitclub Network, a cryptocurrency mining Ponzi scheme worth at least $722 million.