2024-10-22 10:06 |
Australia’s securities watchdog has charged the former CEO of defunct crypto exchange Mine Digital for defrauding an investor of $1.47 million. The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has charged Grant Colthup with one count of fraud after a customer of… origin »
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Activist short seller, who once called crypto 'compete fraud,' charged with fraud
2024-7-27 15:19 | |
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The crime proceeds were generally purchased by the scheme participants at discounted rates of up to 80 cents per dollar in exchange for an unspecified cryptocurrency.
2024-6-5 10:06 | |
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Canada’s self-named ‘crypto king’ has been has been charged with $30 million fraud. According to a May 15 announcement from the Ontario Securities Commission, Two Canadian men, namely Aiden Pleterski, 25, and Colin Murphy, 27, have been charged for duping…
2024-5-17 11:30 | |
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Two men have been charged in Canada for a $40 million CAD cryptocurrency investment fraud.
2024-5-16 09:23 | |
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Two Canadian men have been arrested and charged with fraud for allegedly swindling investors out of $40 million CAD – approximately $30 million USD – in a crypto and foreign exchange investment scheme.
2024-5-19 02:24 | |
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The DOJ arrested and charged two individuals on May 15 over an alleged $25 million MEV exploit that occurred on the Ethereum blockchain. The defendants — brothers Anton and James Pepaire-Bueno — face three charges of conspiracy, wire fraud, and money laundering, each with a potential 20-year sentence.
2024-5-16 02:14 | |
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The DOJ has charged three former Cred executives, including its ex-CEO, over an alleged scheme that led to $783 million in customer crypto losses. The post DOJ charges former Cred execs over $783M fraud and money laundering scheme appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2024-5-4 04:40 | |
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2024-5-1 08:22 | |
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Bitcoin investor Roger Ver arrested in Spain, charged with mail fraud, tax evasion, and causing a $48 million loss to the IRS. The post Bitcoin Cash founder Roger Ver arrested in Spain for tax evasion appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2024-5-1 23:28 | |
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According to an unsealed U.S. Department of Justice indictment, early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver was charged with tax evasion and arrested in Spain.
2024-5-1 22:45 | |
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Prosecutors alleged a Nebraska man defrauded cloud providers in a complex cryptojacking scheme. The post Nebraskan Citizen Charged in $3.5 Million Cryptojacking Fraud appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2024-4-16 15:30 | |
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David Pan, the founder of the Taiwanese crypto exchange ACE, alongside six other suspects, has been charged by prosecutors with fraud and money laundering. According to the official press release, a court ruled the confiscation of Pan’s assets.
2024-4-11 01:30 | |
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Bitwise Asset Management stresses it has no relationship with the startup Bitwise Industries whose founders have been charged with conspiring to commit wire fraud.
2023-11-10 12:06 | |
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Top executives of SafeMoon have been charged with fraud. The token has fallen by almost 100% in less than a week. There's still ongoing discussion surrounding SafeMoon [SFM] and the various The post SafeMoon drops nearly 100% amidst fraud allegations appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2023-11-6 19:30 | |
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The SEC and DOJ both filed charges against the controversial cryptocurrency project SafeMoon and related individuals on Nov. 1. The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) alleged that the company and its members carried out a fraudulent scheme by selling the SafeMoon (SFM) cryptocurrency.
2023-11-2 22:15 | |
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The US government has charged executives of SafeMoon cryptocurrency over allegations of “conspiracy to commit securities fraud, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering. ” The arrest of the Safemoon executives came after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) unveiled charges against them on Wednesday morning.
2023-11-2 21:59 | |
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The SEC has charged SafeMoon's creators with fraud, uncovering a scheme executed through unregistered sales. This revelation led to a 50% price crash, highlighting the risks in unregistered DeFi ventures.
2023-11-1 21:29 | |
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According to charges, the men misappropriated $200 million in investor funds to spend on a luxurious lifestyle.
2023-11-2 20:28 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged SafeMoon and its executive team with perpetrating a fraudulent scheme through an unregistered securities sale.
2023-11-2 20:01 | |
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Lawyers for Daniel Shin, co-founder of Terraform Labs, told a South Korean court that he did not contribute to Terra’s collapse in any way after being charged with fraud and embezzlement.
2023-10-31 22:19 | |
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U.S. regulators have targeted former Voyager Digital CEO Stephen Ehrlich with lawsuits claiming he engaged in fraud and deliberately misrepresented his customers’ government protections.
2023-10-13 20:52 | |
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CFTC announced Jacob Orvidas had conducted a leveraged Bitcoin fraud between October 2017 and July 2020. Orvidas was also charged for failing to register as a commodity pool operator. The CFTC order imposed a $2 million restitution and $500,000 civil monetary penalty.
2023-9-9 21:05 | |
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The SEC has charged Hawaiian resident Jeremy Koski with securities fraud for allegedly manipulating equity investment funds on the Nasdaq and making false promises about cryptocurrency conversion.
2023-9-4 07:43 | |
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A crypto fraud scheme has come to light, implicating John A. DeSalvo, a former lieutenant at the New Jersey Department of Corrections, in a complex web of deceit that specifically targeted police officers and first responders.
2023-8-24 15:30 | |
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Hogeg raised these funds across the world during 2017-18 under the guise of funding four crypto ventures. Police charged him with fraud, money laundering, tax violations, and sexual offences.
2023-8-24 11:30 | |
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In a major development, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged former New Jersey State Correctional Police Officer, John A. DeSalvo, for allegedly orchestrating a fraudulent crypto fraud scheme that specifically targeted law enforcement personnel.
2023-8-24 06:00 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a former New Jersey corrections officer with $600,000 crypto fraud. The post SEC Pursues Former Corrections Officer for $600,000 Crypto Investment Fraud appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-8-24 23:53 | |
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Hexicans take major blow as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged its founder, Richard Heart, with securities fraud
2023-7-31 17:51 | |
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Former Celsius Network CEO Alex Mashinsky was released on a $40 million bail on July 13, the same day he was arrested after being charged with multiple counts of fraud, according to a CNN report. Mashinsky’s lawyer Jonathan Ohring told CNN that the former CEO “vehemently” denies all charges and intends to “vigorously” fight them […] The post Alex Mashinsky out on $40M bail; ‘vehemently’ denies fraud charges appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2023-7-14 21:00 | |
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Former CEO of Celsius Network, Alex Mashinsky, was arrested and charged on Thursday with securities and wire fraud among other offenses, according to Reuters: Mashinsky, 57, arrived in federal court...
2023-7-14 17:16 | |
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The SEC has filed fraud and other securities charges against Celsius Network Limited and its founder, Alex Mashinsky.
2023-7-14 15:00 | |
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Two Florida men charged with a multi-million dollar bitcoin scheme settled with the CFTC and will pay over $5 million in restitution
2023-7-7 14:52 | |
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Bryan Lee, an executive associated with crypto exchange CoinDeal, has been charged in connection with a cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme that defrauded more than 10,000 victims and resulted in losses exceeding $45 million.
2023-5-22 22:50 | |
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Former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky was charged with seven counts of fraud in connection with “false and misleading statements” about his company, among other things.
2023-5-4 20:40 | |
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The founder of bitcoin pool operator MTI was charged with fraud last year for running an unlicensed commodity pool scheme.
2023-4-28 11:06 | |
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The U.S. Department of Justice last year charged three members of a Miami crew for participating in a crypto-related scheme from 2020.
2023-4-27 20:03 | |
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Former investment banker and registered broker Rashawn Russell was arrested in Brooklyn for allegedly scamming investors using cryptocurrency investment fraud schemes.
2023-4-12 20:24 | |
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An investment banker who formerly worked for a firm believed to be Deutsche Bank has been charged with crypto fraud, according to U. S. authorities on April 11. A statement from the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York said that Rashawn Russell was arrested on April 10.
2023-4-12 23:55 | |
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Federal prosecutors in New York charged Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon with fraud hours after he was arrested by police in Montenegro.
2023-3-24 00:41 | |
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In a move that many would say was a long time coming, the SEC has charged Tron founder Justin Sun, his companies, and a host of celebrities with multiple counts of fraud and breaches of securities laws.
2023-3-23 14:30 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday charged Tron founder Justin Sun and three of his firms, including digital asset network company Tron Foundation for market manipulation, fraud, and airdropping unlicensed securities to investors.
2023-3-23 02:02 | |
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OneCoin's victims were allegedly defrauded of over $4 billion in the scheme, which began operations in 2014.
2023-3-22 19:48 | |
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Chinese billionaire using crypto to fight communism charged over $1 billion fraud, Do Kwon’s $11M bet comes due, Zhu Su bonds with Islam.
2023-3-17 02:17 | |
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Exiled Chinese businessman Guo Wengui was arrested in New York on Wednesday morning and charged with fraud for allegedly orchestrating a series of fraudulent schemes that bilked retail investors out of a collective $1.4 billion.
2023-3-16 22:48 | |
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FBI and SDNY are probing the collapse of Terra's algo-stablecoin - UST The agencies investigation is on similar lines as that of the SEC, which charged Do Kwon for committing securities fraud The post US Justice Department is reportedly investigating TerraUSD (UST) collapse appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2023-3-14 01:25 | |
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Nishad Singh, the ex-Co-Lead Engineer of FTX Trading Ltd, has been charged by the SEC for actively participating in a multi-year scheme to deceive equity investors of FTX.
2023-3-1 23:43 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures charged former FTX director of engineering Nishad Singh with fraud allegations on Tuesday.
2023-3-1 21:17 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Do Hyeong Kwon and his Singapore-based company Terraform Labs with orchestrating a multi-billion dollar crypto asset securities fraud involving the UST stablecoin and other crypto asset securities.
2023-2-24 14:01 | |
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Суд в США обвинил четырех россиян в организации и продвижении криптовалютной пирамиды Forsage, жертвы которой по всему миру потеряли приблизительно $340 млн. Forsage Founders Indicted in $340M DeFi Crypto Scheme First Charged Criminal Fraud Case Involving a DeFi Ponzi Schemehttps://t.
2023-2-24 13:46 | |
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A clause in Utah’s Blockchain and Digital Innovation Amendments bill, which would establish a Bitcoin reserve, was dropped right before the final Senate vote. Referred to as House Bill 230, Utah’s State Senate passed the bill with a 19-7-3 vote…
Falcon Finance, a cutting-edge synthetic dollar protocol, has taken a major step forward in safeguarding user assets by integrating Fireblocks Off Exchange. Unlike conventional systems that rely on centralized clearing parties, Fireblocks Off Exchange uses secure, shared wallets powered by Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology.
Web3 security firm GoPlus Security has launched an investigation after its token dropped 60% in a single day, noting that it wasn’t informed about the the listing beforehand. GoPlus Security (GPS), a web3 firm that says it’s working on the…
After experiencing a downtrend over the past three months, the Avalanche community now anticipates a potential bullish reversal for AVAX, driven by ecosystem developments and increasing adoption. In a recent X post, trader Marzell told his 37.6k followers that AVAX…
AAVE pumped 15% after a bullish $1M weekly buyback proposal for 6 months. Over 480K tokens were withdrawn from exchanges during the past three months. Aave [AAVE] was an outlier after itThe post AAVE: Can the buyback program reverse the coin's 50% decline? appeared first on AMBCrypto.
AAVE bounced back from its recent drop after Aave announced plans to revamp its tokenomics, sparking fresh interest among whale investors. According to data from crypto.news, Aave (AAVE) surged nearly 27%, reaching an intraday high of $220 on March 5,…
Japan’s Metplanet has become the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin in Asia after its latest purchase. According to the company’s CEO, Simon Gerovich, Metaplanet grabbed another 497 BTC at around $88,448 per coin, investing nearly $44 million in the process…