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Russian Court Confirms Arrest Warrants for 3 Finiko Founders
20.9.2021
Tatarstan’s highest court has rejected appeals against arrest warrants issued for three co-founders of the notorious Finiko crypto pyramid. The top representatives of the Ponzi scheme, accused of large-scale fraud in Russia, are still hiding abroad, media reports reveal. Three Finiko Ponzi...
US Court Sentences Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Founder to 7.5 Years in Prison
19.9.2021
The founder of two cryptocurrency hedge funds in New York, Stefan Qin, has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison and three years of supervised release. He is also ordered to forfeit about $55 million. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said that he “engaged in a scheme to steal assets”...
Salvadoran Court of Accounts to Investigate Government’s Bitcoin ATM Buys, Chivo Kiosk Construction
17.9.2021
According to reports stemming from the Salvadoran Court of Accounts, the regulatory body is planning to investigate the government’s bitcoin automated teller machine (ATM) purchases and Chivo kiosk construction. The investigation follows the recent protest in El Salvador against the adoption...
NY Attorney General Shuts Down Crypto Trading Platform Coinseed That Cheated Investors out of Millions
15.9.2021
New York Attorney General Letitia James has secured a court order to shut down cryptocurrency exchange Coinseed. The order also “permanently appoints the court receiver to obtain, safeguard, and return all assets invested and traded through” the exchange. New York Attorney General...
Former BitMEX Exec Agrees To Be Extradited From Bermuda To US
15.9.2021
nor Rena Lalgie. Bermuda’s Magistrates’ Court first heard on July 1 that the District Court for the Southern District of New York had requested Dwyer to be extradited to the US, but his attorney requested an extradition hearing on behalf of his client, local paper The Royal Gazet
$30 Million Crypto Scheme’s Leader Pleads Guilty, Facing up to 20 Years in Prison
11.9.2021
The leader of a cryptocurrency scheme that swindled over $30 million from investors has pleaded guilty to fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He now faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Leader of $30M Crypto Scheme Pleads Guilty to Fraud The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ)...
Russian Police Arrest 2 Women, High-Ranking Members of Finiko Crypto Pyramid
11.9.2021
Law enforcement in the Russian republic of Tatarstan have made new arrests in connection with the crypto Ponzi scheme Finiko. Two women detained this week are believed to have attracted millions of dollars to the pyramid. The now collapsed Finiko lured investors from a number of countries in...
Bid to Have MTI Ponzi Declared Unlawful Scheme Suffers Setback — More Investors Oppose Motion
11.9.2021
A slew of late court filings by lawyers representing Mirror Trading International (MTI) investors has forced a South African judge to postpone the hearing of the liquidators’ application to have the online bitcoin scam declared an illegal business. Concern Over Implications of Declaration...
Breaking: Fortnite Banana Man Saga Ends With Official Court Ruling
10.9.2021
Fortnite’s Peely is a grotesquery of the highest order. You know it, I know it, and even Apple knows it. Yet somehow, Epic Games managed to convince a United States district judge that this elongated, yellow monster is “just a banana man,” at least according to today’s ruling in the contentious...
Ethereum Fraudster Sentenced to 2.5 Years Behind Bars
6.9.2021
://www.ksilbo.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=912076">and the Kyoungsang Ilbo, a court in the South Eastern port city of Ulsan heard that the fraudster, named by the media as “A” for legal reasons, collected payments of ETH 15 (worth around USD 59,000 today) and over USD 10,000 worth of fiat f
Ripple files motion to expose XRP holdings of SEC employees
30.8.2021
The court has reportedly given the U.S. SEC until Sept. 3 to respond to Ripple’s motion to compel the authority to provide data on SEC employees’ XRP holdings
Mining Hardware Thief Gets 3-Year Sentence in Russia
30.8.2021
Russian authorities have investigated a number of cases involving the theft of crypto mining equipment in the past months. A resident of Yaroslavl has just been found guilty of stealing mining hardware worth over $20,000 and sentenced to three years in prison. Russian Convicted of Stealing Mining...
SEC Wins Judgment Against Actor Steven Seagal After He Ignores Court Order to Settle Crypto Fraud Case
28.8.2021
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has won a judgment against Steven Seagal after the famous actor failed to pay the agreed sum to settle the crypto fraud case he was involved in. Seagal, now living in Russia, has been ignoring the SEC’s attempts to contact him. Steven Seagal...
Shanghai Man: Ready Player Cats DAO, surging NFT interest, court rules crypto is not property
27.8.2021
CoinDCX exchange joins ad regulator following Delhi high court notice
25.8.2021
Mumbai-based crypto unicorn, CoinDCX, has become a member of the Advertising Standards Council of India, a non-governmental self-regulatory organization
Chinese Court Says Crypto is ‘Not Protected By Law’
23.8.2021
In a landmark ruling that could shake China’s crypto scene, the Supreme Court of the Shandong province has ruled that cryptocurrency “was not protected by law” after deliberating on a case that involves a potential fraud related to the purchase of tokens, as reported by The South China Morning...
Crypto ‘not protected by law,’ rules provincial high court in China
23.8.2021
A provincial high court ruling in China has set a potential precedent by declining to protect a plaintiff’s $10,000 worth of lost crypto tokens
Nigerian Central Bank Freezes Bank Accounts of Fintech Firms, Accuses Them of Violating Forex Regulations
19.8.2021
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) reportedly frozen bank accounts belonging to four fintech firms for up to 180 days after a Federal High Court in Abuja acceded to an “ex parte motion.” The ex parte motion, which is a form of temporary suspension, was granted after a Nigerian chief...
Founder of the Bitcoin Mixer Helix Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Charges
18.8.2021
Larry Dean Harmon, founder and operator of the bitcoin mixing service Helix has pleaded guilty on Wednesday to money laundering charges. Harmon’s guilty plea follows the U.S. Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (Fincen) fining Harmon $60 million last year. Helix Operator...
British Court Orders Binance to Identify and Freeze Hackers’ Accounts After a User Claims Funds Stolen
14.8.2021
A U.K. judge has reportedly ordered cryptocurrency exchange Binance to identify hackers and freeze their accounts after one of its users claimed to be the victim of a $2.6 million hack. Binance Ordered to Help Recover Funds Allegedly Stolen in a Hack A London high court has ordered global...