US authorities have charged a Chinese property tycoon based in New York with orchestrating a billion-dollar fraud. Guo Wengui and one of his business partners, Kin Ming Je, are accused of wire fraud, securities fraud, […]
A town official was running an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation from a crawl space under a school in the US state of Massachusetts, police say. Nadeam Nahas, 39, who was an assistant facilities director in […]
US financial regulators have charged failed South Korean cryptocurrency boss Do Kwon and his company Terraform Labs with “orchestrating a multi-billion dollar crypto asset securities fraud”. The Singapore-based firm created the Terra Luna and TerraUSD […]
Authorities have seized cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, and arrested its co-founder, accusing the firm of fuelling a “high-tech axis of crypto crime”. The US Department of Justice charged Anatoly Legkodymov, a Russian national living in China, […]
NEW YORK (AP) ā The Securities and Exchange Commission went after two prominent companies in the crypto community, alleging that Genesis Global Capital and the crypto exchange Gemini were selling unregistered securities through a popular […]
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been arrested in The Bahamas, the country’s attorney general has said. He is scheduled to appear on Tuesday in a magistrates’ court in the Caribbean […]
Police in Estonia have arrested two men suspected of running a $575m (Ā£485m) cryptocurrency scam involving hundreds of thousands of victims. Estonian police investigated the case with the FBI, and US authorities want to extradite […]
The US Department of Justice has revealed it seized $3.36bn (Ā£2.9bn) of Bitcoin last year which was stolen from an infamous darknet website. The stash of 50,676 Bitcoin was found hidden on various devices in […]
Ruja Ignatova, also known as the “missing Cryptoqueen”, received police information about investigations into her $4bn (Ā£3.5bn) cryptocurrency fraud before she disappeared, it is claimed. The 42-year-old Bulgarian-born woman is wanted for her alleged role […]
Kim Kardashian has agreed to pay a $1.26m (Ā£1.12m) fine for advertising EthereumMax on her Instagram page. The US Securities and Exchange Commission said the reality TV star had received $250,000 for advertising the cryptocurrency, […]
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