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Chainalysis’ Jesse Spiro on Crypto Wallet Blocking and Its Potential Impact

30.8.2019
Learn what would happen while trading with Kingpin Act-designated accounts, what would be the market impact of additional account blacklistings and what moves the OFAC is planning to undertake next – in an interview with Chainalysis

Drug Dealers Who Used Crypto Sentenced to Prison

28.8.2019
Five drug dealers who used cryptocurrencies to launder their funds were sentenced to varying jail terms on Monday

Mega Drug Pushers Johnson & Johnson Get Away While Peaceful Silk Road Is Destroyed

28.8.2019
It’s been said that those who protest the loudest are often the ones who are guilty, and when it comes to government and their pet corporations, things are no different. No surprise, then, that the blustery moralizing — and violent state force brought to bear against businesses —...

The White House Just Blamed Bitcoin for America’s Opiate Crisis

24.8.2019
The opioid epidemic is the new devil Bitcoin is being blamed for inflaming, to be added to the already long list of heinous crimes crypto is supposedly responsible for, like terrorism, money laundering, and trafficking. While it’s painfully clear that the U.S. dollar is a much more common...

US Treasury Department Tightens Against Cryptocurrency Addresses Associated With Chinese “Drug Kingpins”

22.8.2019
The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has enlisted three Chinese nationals and their cryptocurrency addresses, alleging they violated money laundering and drug smuggling laws. The United States Treasury Department has constituted different cryptocurrency addresses...

US Treasury Blacklists Bitcoin, Litecoin Addresses of Chinese ‘Drug Kingpins’

21.8.2019
The U.S. Treasury's OFAC has put bitcoin and litecoin addresses of three Chinese nationals on its sanctions list, the second time the agency has blacklisted crypto wallets

Dark Web Drug Dealer to Forfeit Millions of Dollars in Illicit Crypto Earnings

20.8.2019
A man has been sentenced in San Diego, California, for conspiring to sell opioids and other drugs over dark web markets for cryptocurrencies.

Three UK Men Busted Over Bitcoin-Based Drug Ring

12.8.2019
The trio sold their products on the dark web and shipped as far as Australia

Dark Market Drug Dealers Plead Guilty, Forfeit Crypto Proceeds

7.8.2019
A couple based out of California has pleaded guilty to distributing drugs via a dark-web marketplace in exchange for cryptocurrencies

California Couple to Forfeit Cryptocurrency Riches After Drug Bust

7.8.2019
The couple must forfeit an undisclosed sum of bitcoin and bitcoin cash they acquired from selling illicit goods on a dark web marketplace

Dark Web Drug Dealer to Hand Over Bitcoin Millions After Plea Deal

29.7.2019
A dark web drug dealer must forfeit $4 million in funds including bitcoin after pleading guilty in New York

Money Laundering Fines Worth Billions Help Bankers Avoid Prosecution and Unpleasant Labels

18.7.2019
The recent seizure of a cargo ship owned by JP Morgan, a vessel loaded with 20 tons of cocaine according to latest accounts, highlighted the risks of banks’ involvement in illicit activities, inadvertent or otherwise. And although U.S. authorities released the MSC Gayane after the owner,...

Spain Thwarts Bitcoin ATM Scam, Prompting Regulatory Debate Worldwide

16.7.2019
Bitcoin ATMs are not currently governed by EU money laundering regulations, and arrests coordinated by Spanish police and Europol in May are bringing new focus to this loophole. A group of eight Spanish and Latin American individuals have been arrested, along with several of their associates,...

JP Morgan Chase Ship Busted: Cocaine, Banks and the Failed Drug War

11.7.2019
A ship seized by the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency in June carrying over 15,000 kilos of cocaine has now been tied to JP Morgan Chase’s asset management unit. Officially the company does not exercise any operational control of the vessel, but some serious questions are raised when...

Flowery V20 Talk and Government Terror: Why Darknet Crime Is the Least of Our Worries

1.7.2019
Governments and central banking regulatory bodies continue to express concern about crypto being used for criminal purposes and terror. The terror campaigns of these very same governments continue unabated, however. In the wake of the V20 summit it might seem that lawmakers actually care about...

Ross Ulbricht Letter Questions the Wisdom of Imprisoning Non-Violent Offenders

29.6.2019
Forced to spend the rest of his days in a cage, Ross Ulbricht has recounted his situation in a letter, which explains how he’s spent more than 2,096 days in a U.S. federal penitentiary for running a website. Also Read: Bitcoin ‘Inventor’ Craig Wright Claims He Can’t Access...

Drug Abuse and Cryptocurrencies – The Dark Side

26.6.2019
As the world observes the International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, we hereby attempt to analyze the correlation between the crypto space and illicit drugs and how it has been affecting people around the globe. In its 10 years of existence, Bitcoin has found thousands of...