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U.S. treasury department issues crypto stablecoins warnings over money laundering concerns
Top U.S. financial regulators are warning firms behind an important part of the cryptocurrency market to tighten protections against money laundering.
At issue are so-called stablecoins that traders rely on to facilitate payments for digital tokens. In a Wednesday statement,...
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Latin American cartels exploit cryptocurrencies to keep business moving
In April 2019, Mexican police arrested suspected human trafficker Ignacio Santoyo in a plush area of the Caribbean resort of Playa del Carmen after linking him to a prostitution racket extending across Latin America.
Yet it was not the 2,000...
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Ex-Microsoft software engineer jailed over $10m bitcoin fraud scheme
A former software engineer at Microsoft received a nine-year prison sentence Monday for an elaborate multi-million dollar criminal scheme involving bitcoin and digital gift cards.
Ukrainian citizen Volodymyr Kvashuk, 26, was sentenced in the U.S. District Court in Seattle for...
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U.S. DoJ seizes over $1 billion in bitcoins linked to online marketplace Silk Road
Federal agents this week seized more than $1 billion worth of bitcoins linked to the now-defunct Silk Road website, a criminal marketplace on the dark web, in what may be the Justice Department’s largest-ever seizure of cryptocurrency.
The Justice Department...
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Spanish police arrests operator of Crypto Arbitrage firm Arbistar on fraud charges
The CEO of Arbistar the Spanish investment company, Santiago Fuentes, has been arrested and arraigned on charges of fraud, belonging to a criminal organization and money laundering. Fuentes, who has been in hiding since September, was arrested at one...
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US financial watchdog fines bitcoin mixer operator $60m for money laundering
The founder and operator of some of the first "mixing" services in crypto will have to cough up $60 million to United States regulators, even as he faces continued criminal charges.Â
The U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, announced on...
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Trial of bitcoin launderer Alexander Vinnik begins in Paris
The trial of a Russian man alleged to have used ransomware in a 135 million euros ($157 million) bitcoin fraud will begin Monday.
Alexander Vinnik, who is also wanted in the United States and in Russia, faces up to ten years in...
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Spanish prosecutors probes Arbistar over alleged $1 billion bitcoin pyramid scheme
The Spanish Prosecution office says it is investigating Arbistar for allegedly running a bitcoin trading scam with preliminary findings suggesting $1 billion in investors’ funds cannot be accounted for. The disappearance of investor funds has affected 32,000 families that...
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U.S. SEC sues John McAfee over promotion of “worthless” cryptocurrency ICO
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Monday sued John McAfee, creator of the eponymous anti-virus software, alleging that he made over $23.1 million in undisclosed compensation from recommending seven cryptocurrency offerings on Twitter that were materially false...
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U.S. files suit to seize cryptocurrency accounts linked to North korea
U.S. authorities on Thursday moved to seize 280 cryptocurrency accounts they said were used by North Korean hackers who stole more than a quarter of a billion dollars from cryptocurrency companies around the world, including one in the U.S.
The...
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Former LA Councilman Mitch Englander gets 14 months in prison in corruption case
Former Los Angeles City Councilman Mitchell Englander was sentenced to 14 months in federal prison and ordered to pay...