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Prosecutors in South Korea were seeking an eight-year prison sentence for Lee Jung-hoon, who was acquitted in the first court hearing.
2023-1-4 16:01 | |
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The CEO of a South Korean Crypto Exchange has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for murder. His appeal was rejected and the prison sentence has been imposed. Crypto CEO sentenced to prison for murder After a rejected appeal,…
2022-12-3 19:42 | |
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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 founder of Bithumb crypto exchange is facing a potential eight-year prison sentence over allegations of a $70 million fraud. The post Bithumb Founder Could Face 8 Years in Prison Over $70M Fraud appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-10-26 21:00 | |
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The owner of South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, Lee Jung-hoon, is likely to be sentenced to eight years in prison for committing fraud.
2022-10-26 13:36 | |
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"I'm just a regular Bitcoiner caught in the crosshairs," claimed Mark Alexander Hopkins, also known as Rizzn, prior to serving his prison sentence.
2022-9-6 00:18 | |
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Mihaqloviv Dubnikov, 29, a Russian citizen, made an initial appearance in a federal court in Portland, Oregon, Wednesday, and his five-day jury trial is scheduled to begin on Oct. 4. If convicted, Dubnikov faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
2022-8-19 10:36 | |
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A high-ranking BitMEX executive, Gregory Dwyer, has pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. He faces a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison. The post BitMEX Executive Pleads Guilty to Violating Bank Secrecy Act appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-8-9 10:30 | |
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Hayes pleaded guilty to one count of violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) in February, and faced a sentence of up to 12 months in prison.
2022-5-21 23:59 | |
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United States Prosecutors have filed a sentencing recommendation in the case against BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes seeking minimum one-year imprisonment. The post US prosecutors recommend minimum 1 year prison sentence for BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2022-5-14 00:45 | |
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Quick take: Bitmex’s founder and former CEO, Arthur Hayes, has requested leniency from the judge handling his court case Mr. Hayes is requesting no jail time and permission to live abroad and travel freely His lawyers have also asked for probation with no home detention or community confinement Arthur Hayes had struck a plea deal that would result in a prison sentence of 6 to 12 months The founder of Bitmex and former CEO, Arthur Hayes, is requesting leniency from […]
2022-5-6 20:36 | |
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Former Ethereum Foundation researcher Virgil Griffith has seen a sentence of 63 months in prison for charges related to helping North Korea. He was also ordered to pay a $100,000 fine.
2022-4-13 00:43 | |
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Ross Ulbricht, founder of darknet bitcoin marketplace Silk Road, is auctioning a series of art created while serving his life sentence.
2022-4-7 15:00 | |
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A Turkish prosecutor wants to slap the founders and executives of the Thodex cryptocurrency exchange with what could be the harshest prison sentence of all time. Bloomberg reported Friday, citing Demiroren News Agency, that the charges against Istanbul-based Thodex crypto exchange seeks sentences of up to 40,564 years for each of the 21 accused. According […]
2022-4-2 19:00 | |
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Shilling unregistered cryptocurrencies may result in a prison sentence in the UAE starting from next year
2021-12-24 18:02 | |
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Ross Ulbricht’s NFT collection paints a melancholy but hopeful picture of a man who has had much time to reflect on his life’s significance while serving his no-parole prison sentence. The post Convicted Silk Road Mastermind Releases NFT Collection appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-12-5 14:30 | |
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Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind of The Silk Road reveals plans to launch his NFTs. Proceeds from the sale will be used to set up a trust with the aim of securing his release from prison. Ross Ulbricht is currently serving a double life imprisonment sentence for his role in the Silk Road. Founder of the […]
2021-12-2 17:56 | |
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The bill will double the fines imposed on those found guilty of laundering money via crypto, along with a harsher prison sentence. The post Brazil Cracking-Down on Crypto Money Laundering With New Bill appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-10-4 22:13 | |
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The creator of AriseCoin was handed a five-year sentence and hit with $4 million in fines for his part in the scheme. The post CEO of AriseCoin Given Five Years in Prison for Crypto Scheme appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-8-29 15:15 | |
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John McAfee, the founder of the antivirus software company McAfee, was found dead in his cell in Spain, apparently by suicide, just hours after the country’s highest court approved his extradition to the United States, where he was wanted on tax-related criminal charges carrying a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison. John McAfee: Crypto […]
2021-6-24 11:10 | |
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Rapper Ja Rule has become the latest to enter the NFT market. He put up a 48×60 inch Fyre Festival-inspired oil painting for sale as an NFT. The disastrous Fyre Festival fiasco in 2017 resulted in a six-year prison sentence for co-founder Billy McFarland.
2021-3-17 10:37 | |
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UK resident from Nuneaton has been charged for importing illegal drugs bought with Bitcoin; he will now serve a two-year prison sentence. Authorities alleged that the resident named Dylan Bailey, who The post UK teen paid Bitcoin for ecstasy on dark web; faces 2 years in prison appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-2-12 00:30 | |
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German authorities have been unable to gain access to more than 1,700 bitcoins belonging to a convicted hacker, who kept silent about how to access his crypto stash while serving his prison sentence.
2021-2-8 21:15 | |
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The operator of a Bulgarian crypto exchange has received a 10-year prison sentence for money laundering in connection with an Eastern European cybercrime syndicate.
2021-1-14 15:59 | |
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Lawyers of the alleged $4 billion Bitcoin launderer appeal to the court, arguing that Alexander Vinnik was just an employee at BTC-e.
2020-12-20 18:39 | |
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The Paris court announced its sentence to Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, accused of large-scale money laundering through the BTC-e crypto exchange. He was sentenced to five years in prison and a fine worth more than €100,000.
2020-12-8 19:55 | |
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A former software engineer at Microsoft has been sentenced to nine years in prison after he devised a complex scheme, involving bitcoin, to steal over $10 million from his former employer. Ukrainian national Volodymyr Kvashu, 26, was charged by a Seattle District court with 18 felonies including identity theft and money laundering. According to a […]
2020-11-11 20:56 | |
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US federal prosecutors are requesting US District Judge Lorna Schofield to sentence a fraudster behind a celebrity-endorsed ICO to a long term in prison. A report unveiled this news on November 4, noting that the prosecutors filed a sentencing submission on October 31, demanding a harsh sentence against Robert Joseph Farkas, the co-founder of Centra Tech.
2020-11-4 15:27 | |
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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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Gemcoin mastermind faces 10-year prison sentence over $147 million cryptocurrency scheme
2020-2-20 07:20 | |
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Mathew Thomas gets one year of jail time after defrauding his clients of $200,000
2020-2-8 18:15 | |
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Maksim Zaslavskiy, who ran two fraudulent ICO projects, received a year and a half-long prison sentence this Monday which made his case one of the first ones to apply federal securities law on cryptocurrency.
2019-11-20 14:00 | |
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A South Korean district court has sentenced executives of a local crypto exchange to prison. The CEO of the exchange got a 16-year jail sentence while other executives and their accomplices got between six and 11 years.
2019-11-13 15:20 | |
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Conservative commentator and Trump supporter Charlie Kirk is appalled by Ross Ulbricht's draconian prison sentence
2019-11-12 10:18 | |
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A woman from East Hollywood, California, has been convicted of robbery relating to peer-to-peer Bitcoin trades. Precious Lanay Fitzgerald was one of two involved in the incidents that awarded the pair the moniker ‘Discount Bitcoin Bandits’.
2019-11-9 22:00 | |
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A nuclear lab researcher in Russia will reportedly be serving three years in a prison colony for allegedly using government equipment to illegally mine Bitcoin (BTC). Andrey Rybkin, a nuclear scientist working at the All-Russian...
2019-10-26 11:56 | |
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The last of three Russian scientists caught illegally mining bitcoin at a top-secret nuclear lab has been given a prison sentence.
2019-10-25 12:30 | |
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A father and daughter have received a combined prison sentence of eight years after selling drugs in exchange for Bitcoin on the dark web. Brittany Nicole Green, sentenced to five years, and her father Gregory, who will spend three years behind bars, ran a mail-order drug operation from their home in Billings (Montana).
2019-10-4 12:51 | |
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Since the unraveling of Silk Road, its creator, Ross Ulbricht, has served six full years since his initial imprisonment. All this time is just a small dent on the double life sentence plus 40 years that Ulbricht received in May 2015, on charges of money-laundering and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
2019-10-2 17:00 | |
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An Australian national living in Boulder, Colorado was slammed with a one year and a day prison sentence last month for trading bitcoins. An August 23 statement from the Colorado U.S. District Attorney’s Office states that Emilio Testa, 32, was charged with money laundering, and claims Testa knew the funds he was acquiring had been […] The post ‘We’re Going to Find You’ – How Undercover Agents Trade Prison Time for Bitcoins appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-9-2 18:00 | |
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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht has spent six years in prison and has 34 years and two life sentences to go unless a petition spearheaded by his mother and sister lead to a grant of clemency. 195K Signatures and Counting For Ulbricht A petition seeking clemency for Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is quickly approaching 200,000 signatures.
2019-8-21 17:00 | |
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A dark web kingpin has forfeited $4 million, including Bitcoin and 100 quadrillion Zimbabwe bank notes after selling drugs to an undercover cop via encrypted email. Richard Castro, of Windermere (Florida), pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute three controlled substances – carfentanil, phenyl fentanyl, and fentanyl.
2019-7-29 12:38 | |
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Irish man Gary Davis, also known as “Libertas,” has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for helping to run the now defunct Silk Road website on the dark web. The Irish national, who was extradited to the US in July last year, was arrested in January 2014.
2019-7-26 17:35 | |
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Revenge porn isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, but with advancements in AI, “deepfakes” — an AI-based technology used to digitally produce or alter realistic looking video content — are becoming increasingly harder to distinguish from real videos.
2019-7-2 11:53 | |
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Ross Ulbricht, the mastermind of the first darknet market site, Silk Road, is currently serving prison time in the United States Penitentiary. Ulbricht is a first-time offender and is serving two life imprisonments plus 40 years sentence without the possibility of parole for the creation of Silk Road.
2019-6-23 19:30 | |
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By CCN Markets: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has denied knowledge of a proposed bill which would see Bitcoin and crypto ownership in India made entirely illegal. Reports surfaced last week that lawmakers in India were working on legislation that could carry a 10-year prison sentence for anyone caught holding cryptocurrency.
2019-6-17 12:23 | |
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A US man who sold narcotics on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Reeves, who sold the drugs under the moniker “Platinum45,” was sentenced on Monday by by United States District Judge James V.
2019-6-13 12:34 | |
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This week, a report claims that certain government departments across the country are supporting an outright ban on the “sale, purchase and issuance of all types” or crypto including Bitcoin, and could lead to a jail sentence for up to 10-years in prison for using the digital asset class as its intended.
2019-6-8 04:02 | |
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India may become the first major country in the world to criminalize the mining, holding or selling of bitcoin and other cryptos according to Bloomberg’s Indian unit which says: “The...
2019-6-7 16:38 | |
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The Labour government said the bill will give owners of bitcoin and other digital assets greater legal protection.
U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer appointed Tulip Siddiq as the City Minister, a role that oversees financial services including crypto.
Taiwan's crypto advocacy body, the Taiwan Virtual Asset Service Provider Association, has been formally established and the founding meeting held with 24 cryptocurrency-related entities.
The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.