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Sam Bankman-Fried Can Grill Former FTX Insiders on Drug Use in Court
27.9.2023
While Bankman-Fried's lawyers tried again to get him out of jail just days ahead of his trial, the judge overseeing the case inched closer to resolving some outstanding issues
Judge Limits Bankman-Fried’s Trial Arguments; Allows Recreational Drug Use Questions
27.9.2023
A federal judge has issued rulings limiting some arguments the defense can make at Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal fraud trial next month. However, the judge will allow Bankman-Fried’s lawyers to question witnesses about past recreational drug use. Bankman-Fried Can’t Mention Jail...
OFAC Blacklists ETH Wallet Operated By Cartel for Illicit Drug Trafficking
26.9.2023
In a new round of sanctions, the US Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has added ten more individuals to its blackbook.
According to a September 26 press release, the US government agency disclosed that many of these individuals were affiliated with an international...
Sam Bankman-Fried Can Ask DOJ Witnesses About Drug Use
26.9.2023
Judge Lewis Kaplan, who's overseeing Sam Bankman-Fried's upcoming trial, set guardrails for certain witness questions and testimony
London Fintech Owner Accused of Facilitating Massive Drug Money Laundering via Crypto
8.9.2023
A fintech owner in London is under scrutiny for allegedly assisting notorious drug traffickers in laundering hundreds of millions of euros through a crypto exchange platform.
Caio Marchesani, the 38-year-old Italian owner of Trans-Fast Remittance, a regulated payments business, is accused...
DEA Duped: How a Crafty Crypto Scammer Outwitted the Agency and Made Off With $55K
26.8.2023
In a revealing report published on August 24, 2023, a significant oversight by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) was brought to light. In their endeavor to manage assets confiscated from a nefarious enterprise, the DEA mistakenly funneled funds to an unrelated scammer, falling prey to a notorious...
South Korean Police Arrest 312 in Crypto-powered Drug Trading Busts
16.8.2023
South Korean police are stepping up their crackdown on crypto-powered drug trafficking, and have made 312 arrests in a wide-sweeping narcotics bust.
The broadcaster KBS reported that the arrests were carried out by the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Drug Crime Investigation.
The suspects were...
Alleged Admin of Darknet Marketplace Monopoly Market Extradited to US
29.6.2023
The suspected administrator of the Monopoly Market darknet marketplace has been extradited from Austria to face charges in the U.S. The man, a citizen of Serbia and Croatia who was arrested in Vienna last November, has been accused of facilitating $18 million in illegal drug transactions using...
LabDAO Raises $3.6M to Decentralize Drug Discovery
23.5.2023
The project also launched its new PLEX client that eases the burden of resource-intensive computations for scientific data
S Korean President Calls for ‘War’ on Crypto-powered Drug Trafficking
19.4.2023
South Korean President Yoon Seok-yeol has declared an “all-out war” on crypto-powered drug trafficking after a large number of narcotics-trading teens were handed jail time.
Per Today Korea, Yoon said there was a “need” to “mobilize all government capabilities in the fight against drugs.”
At...
South Korean ‘Crypto Drug-trading Teens’ Jailed
18.4.2023
A “continuous” flow of South Korean teens is being given jail time as law enforcers continue a crackdown on crypto-powered drug trading.
Kyungnam Shinmun reported that courts in the southern city of Changwon are now “sentencing teens and people in their twenties to imprisonment, one after...
No One’s Getting Laid In Starfield, Apparently
17.3.2023
Starfield, Bethesda Game Studios’ Skyrim-but-in-space RPG, finally has a firm September 6 release date. A June 11 presentation will give us a closer look at the game that has over 1,000 planets, but something you might not have expected to learn before then is just how sexless Starfield will be....
US Drug Enforcement Agency Seized $1.8M From Binance in 2022
24.2.2023
Binance and the Drug Enforcement Agency disrupted a pipeline that moved cash generated from selling narcotics in Michigan to Mexico via stablecoins
New Document Suggests OneCoin Crypto Fraudster Ruja Ignatova was 'Killed' in Greece in 2018 by Drug Lord – What's Going On?
21.2.2023
Founder of the infamous crypto scam OneCoin, ‘CryptoQueen’ Ruja Ignatova was killed by a drug lord while on board a yacht in Greece, according to a new report published by investigative journalists.
According to the report, Ignatova was murdered on behalf of the infamous drug lord Christoforos...
Onecoin Cryptoqueen Killed in Greece in 2018, Report Claims
21.2.2023
Ruja Ignatova, founder of the crypto pyramid Onecoin, may have been murdered in Greece a year after her disappearance. According to an article, quoting а leaked report from a police informant, the “missing Cryptoqueen” was killed on a yacht in the Ionian Sea more than four years ago. Murder in...
S Korean Crackdown Has Not Dampened Youth’s Thirst for Bitcoin-powered Drug Dealing
1.2.2023
Crypto-powered drug trading is still booming in South Korea – and a recent police crackdown on online bitcoin (BTC) and altcoin drug deals has done little to dampen the demand for web-traded narcotics.
Per Kuki News, Twitter and Telegram are still rife with posts from South Korean drug dealers...
US Arrests Russian Co-founder of Bitzlato Exchange on Suspicion of Money Laundering Illegal Gambling and Drug Money
19.1.2023
Anatoly Legkodymov, the Russian founder of Hong Kong-registered crypto exchange Bitzlato, has been arrested by US authorities for allegedly processing $700 million in illicit funds.
In a January 18 filing, the U.S. Department of Justice said Legkodymov was arrested in Miami on Tuesday on charges...
Ukrainian Pharmacy Chain Introduces Cryptocurrency Payments
5.1.2023
A major Ukrainian chain of pharmacies has started accepting cryptocurrency through Binance Pay. The new payment method will be available online, according to the company, which operates hundreds of drugstores across the war-torn Eastern European nation. Pharmacy Offers Ukrainians Option to Pay With...
Ukrainian Steals Bitcoin From Russian Darknet Market, Donates to Charity
26.12.2022
A Ukrainian living in the U.S. has reportedly hacked a major drug market on the Russian dark web, diverting some of its crypto proceeds. The man says he donated the digital cash stolen from the illicit website to an organization delivering humanitarian aid across his war-torn homeland. Wisconsin...
Crime Investigation: Global Drug Cartel Laundered Millions of Dollars Through Binance
21.12.2022
Major cryptoasset exchange Binance was reportedly used by a Mexican-based internationally-operating drug cartel to launder millions of US dollars - and the exchange helped the authorities identify the suspects....
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