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Ireland Seizes Bitcoin Stash Worth $56M But Can’t Sell for 7 Years

20.2.2020
Ireland’s Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) seized 6,000 BTC from a Dublin resident who was accused of growing cannabis on property located in the Wicklow Mountain region. The police found around €450,000 of marijuana plants but the €52 million ($56.1M) of BTC was the biggest...

Crypto Accused of Facilitating Illegal Gambling — What Are the Odds?

20.2.2020
Crypto has continued to attract a lot of negative attention for its increasing popularity within the global illegal gambling market

Currency.com Accused of Exploiting KYC to Withhold Customer Funds

18.2.2020
Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Transaction (KYT) are ostensibly deployed by exchanges to combat money laundering. In practice, these provisions are used as an excuse to surveil, cajole, and threaten customers, who risk losing funds if they are unable to meet the impossibly high burden...

Craig Wright Accused of Confusing Trial Proceedings

5.2.2020
Craig Wright has been accused of abusing attorney client privilege to withhold documents and thwart trial proceedings

Alexander Vinnik Accused of Laundering Billions Through BTC-e Extradited to France

25.1.2020
Alexander Vinnik, the Russian-born IT specialist who spent over two years in detention in Greece, where he was arrested on a U.S. warrant, is now in Paris. The alleged BTC-e operator, suspected of laundering at least $4 billion through the now defunct crypto exchange, has been handed over to France...

Accused Bitcoin Launderer Vinnik Reportedly Arrives at French Hospital

24.1.2020
Accused money launderer Alexander Vinnik arrives at French hospital

6 Bankers Accused of Earning €30M in Bonuses From German Fraud, Tax Lawyer Out on €4M Bail

22.1.2020
Former bank employees have received bonuses worth millions of euros in an illegal trading scheme that also involved a tax lawyer, prosecutors in Frankfurt revealed this week. The case is part of multiple investigations carried out across Germany, the hardest hit country in a notorious tax fraud...

French Businessman Detained for Stealing €1.2 Million in Crypto From His Partners

30.12.2019
An investigation launched on the request of a French startup has led to the indictment of a 37-year-old entrepreneur accused of stealing 182 BTC from the company he cofounded. Embezzlement of money is one the charges brought against him by the public prosecutor’s office in Paris. Also read:...

Greek Court Suspends Decision to Extradite Alexander Vinnik

25.12.2019
The Supreme Administrative Court of Greece has suspended a decision to extradite the alleged BTC-e operator Alexander Vinnik. The temporary measure has been imposed to allow the review of an appeal against the extradition. The Russian national, accused of laundering billions of dollars through...

Australia Probes Big Four Bank Accused of 23 Million Money Laundering Breaches

18.12.2019
With stricter new regulations on the horizon for the crypto space around the world, Australians have found that it’s actually their traditional financial institutions that have been breaching well-established anti-money laundering rules and other industry standards this year. Westpac, one...

Accused Onecoin Co-Conspirators Fight Criminal Charges in the US

10.12.2019
The Onecoin scam, a multi-level Ponzi scheme that acquired $4 billion from investors has been falling apart at the seams. Criminal proceedings have started against Onecoin leaders and one alleged associate who was found guilty of laundering $400 million has asked a New York judge for more time...

Jailed Deepdotweb Admin Denies Earning $15M From Darknet Links

12.11.2019
In an interview from prison, one of Deepdotweb’s operators has disputed the $15 million allegedly made from “illegal” referral links, claiming “There was no such amount.” Currently on remand in France, Israeli citizen Tal Prihar stands accused of directing visitors...

OneCoin Scam Accused Lawyer’s Trial to Begin in New York

6.11.2019
The trial process of a US-based lawyer named Mark Scott, who was recently blamed for being involved in embezzlement of the proceeds from the notoriously famous OneCoin cryptocurrency “scam,” has started in the New York City. According to the reports describing the allegations imposed on the lawyer...

Bitfinex Claims to Be Victim of Fraud After Crypto Capital President Arrested

28.10.2019
The operators of Bitfinex claim that the cryptocurrency exchange is a victim of fraud committed by its payment processor Crypto Capital. The men behind Crypto Capital now face charges related to money laundering in Poland and the U.S. Also Read: Tether Created ‘Largest Bubble in Human...

Karatbars Accused of Fraud; Claims Obama’s Sister is a Supporter

12.10.2019
Karatbars International is a project led by Harald Seiz, Josip Heit, Alex Bodi, and Ovidiu Toma. It is a global Multi-level Marketing (MLM) e-commerce business known for selling small gold bars and gift items in gold bullion. The company has come under fire recently over its past promises...

Bitfinex, Tether Accused of USD 1.4 Trillion Market Manipulation

7.10.2019
As expected, a major class-action lawsuit has been filed against cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex and its sister company, stablecoin issuer Tether. The lawsuit claims that Bitfinex and Tether manipulated the cryptocurrency market and caused "the biggest financial bubble in human history."...