2020-12-8 18:18 |
Alexander Vinnik, an alleged BTC-e operator, was found guilty of money laundering in France and sentenced to five years in prison. origin »
2020-12-8 18:18 |
Alexander Vinnik, an alleged BTC-e operator, was found guilty of money laundering in France and sentenced to five years in prison. origin »
A court in Paris sentenced alleged Russian Bitcoin hacker Alexander Vinnik to five years in prison for crimes connected to money laundering and for providing false information about the origin of the The post Paris court sentenced Russian hacker to 5 years in prison appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-12-7 22:00 | |
The Paris court announced its sentence to Russian citizen Alexander Vinnik, accused of large-scale money laundering through the BTC-e crypto exchange. He was sentenced to five years in prison and a fine worth more than €100,000.
2020-12-8 19:55 | |
Canadian brothers Firoz and Ferhan Patel are headed to prison after admitting their payments company had broken the law.
2020-11-14 21:25 | |
A former software engineer at Microsoft has been sentenced to nine years in prison after he devised a complex scheme, involving bitcoin, to steal over $10 million from his former employer. Ukrainian national Volodymyr Kvashu, 26, was charged by a Seattle District court with 18 felonies including identity theft and money laundering. According to a […]
2020-11-11 20:56 | |
A British citizen who has reportedly been an ISIS member for over four years has appeared before a local court for allegedly sending money abroad (via BTC) to help captured ISIS militants escape SyriaThe post Alleged British ISIS member used Bitcoin to fund militants’ escape from Syrian prison camps appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-31 00:30 | |
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 of his properties in the south of Tenerife.
2020-10-24 22:15 | |
The four-day trial of Alexander Vinnik, 41, alleged to have used ransomware in a $157 million (135 million euros) bitcoin fraud that involved 200 victims, began in Paris on Monday. The Russian man who is wanted both in the US and Russia faces up to ten years in prison over charges of extortion, money laundering, […] The post BTC-e Exchange Operator’s Trail for Bitcoin Fraud Begins in Paris first appeared on BitcoinExchangeGuide.
2020-10-21 21:01 | |
A Russian district court has dismissed bitcoin theft as a crime since cryptocurrency is not regulated in Russia and there is no legal status for bitcoin. The accused were found guilty, sentenced to prison, and ordered to return only the fiat money stolen — not cryptocurrencies.
2020-7-3 14:15 | |
Privacy of crypto transactions has been challenged again, as the CEO of the Dropbit app Larry Harmon has been arrested and charged with conspiracy to launder money. Dropbit CEO Larry Harmon Faces 30 Years in Prison Dropbit, the Bitcoin wallet and service, continues to operate for now.
2020-2-13 17:30 | |
Bogdan Nicolescu, the leader of the Bayrob Group hacker gang from Romania, as well as his co-conspirator Radu Miclaus, have been found guilty of charges related to their cryptojacking malware. The charges include 21 separate counts of wire fraud, money laundering, aggravated identity theft, and other crimes, according to a press release that was published […]
2019-12-10 23:51 | |
The fraudster used diamonds and real estate to whisk away $300,000 in other people's money in 2017.
2019-11-20 01:15 | |
An Australian national living in Boulder, Colorado was slammed with a one year and a day prison sentence last month for trading bitcoins. An August 23 statement from the Colorado U.S. District Attorney’s Office states that Emilio Testa, 32, was charged with money laundering, and claims Testa knew the funds he was acquiring had been […] The post ‘We’re Going to Find You’ – How Undercover Agents Trade Prison Time for Bitcoins appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2019-9-2 18:00 | |
Goldman Sachs vice president and known Bitcoin skeptic Richard Gnodde is among 17 senior executives who could face ten years’ in prison for money laundering. Vice President Could Face 10 Years In Jail According to a press release from Malaysia’s attorney general August 9, Gnodde is now wanted in connection with the infamous 1MDB scandal from 2013.
2019-8-10 01:00 | |
A dark web kingpin has forfeited $4 million, including Bitcoin and 100 quadrillion Zimbabwe bank notes after selling drugs to an undercover cop via encrypted email. Richard Castro, of Windermere (Florida), pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute three controlled substances – carfentanil, phenyl fentanyl, and fentanyl.
2019-7-29 12:38 | |
Authorities in Florida have busted an elaborate operation which saw prison inmates use Bitcoin to launder thousands of dollars via their commissary accounts. An investigation by Pasco County Sherriff’s Deputies revealed how inmates at the county jail were having money deposited into their commissary accounts using stolen credit cards.
2019-7-4 15:46 | |
A US man who sold narcotics on the dark web in exchange for Bitcoin has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. Tyler Reeves, who sold the drugs under the moniker “Platinum45,” was sentenced on Monday by by United States District Judge James V.
2019-6-13 12:34 | |
U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
Anthony J. Battaglia, a United States federal judge for the Southern District of California has sentenced Morgan Rockcoons, a Las Vegas, Nevada resident to nearly two years in prison for wire fraud and running an unlicensed money transmitting business, according to a press release on May 28, 2019.
2019-5-30 09:00 | |
By CCN: A Nevadan who has been accused of wire fraud as well as operating an unlicensed money transmitting service using bitcoin has been sentenced to nearly two years in prison. Morgan Rocknoons, who also goes by the name Morgan Rockwell, had earlier pleaded guilty to both charges.
2019-5-29 14:16 | |
In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded guilty to running a drug trafficking business that laundered millions of dollars in Western Union and crypto payments.
2019-4-25 20:37 | |
A crypto market trader has been sentenced to two years in prison for failing to comply with U.S. anti-money laundering statutes. Learn more here. The post Crypto Market Trader Convicted of Money Laundering Offenses appeared first on CoinCentral.
2019-4-17 21:40 | |
Bitcoin trader Jacob Burrell Campos was sentenced on April 8, 2019, to serve a two-year prison sentence and to forfeit more than $800,000 “for operating an unlicensed money transmitting business.
2019-4-13 18:54 | |
A 33-year-old Danish man was sentenced to four years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of laundering Bitcoin. According to the verdict, the perpetrator bought Bitcoins from funds he received from identifiable criminal sources and sent it to unidentified offshore accounts.
2019-4-10 06:30 | |
A 22-year-old man in the US has been sentenced to two years in prison for selling hundreds of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin through an unlicensed money transmitting business. Jacob Burrell Campos, who had been in custody without bail since he was arrested in August last year, was also forced to forfeit $823,357 in illicit profits.
2019-4-9 13:04 | |
Bitcoin hard fork proponent, Roger Ver, called Ross Ulbricht a genius entrepreneur and a hero during a recent YouTube session. Ulbricht, who was the founder of Silk Road, was charged with money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics.
2019-4-9 04:30 | |
One of the biggest concerns for crypto opponents is the way that money laundering is proving to be a use case for cryptocurrency. However, the silver lining of this problem is that the blockchain allows investigators to follow along with certain transactions with enough skill. While one Danish man thought he could get away with […]
2019-4-9 01:32 | |
Bitcoin is not as anonymous as you might think. A Danish man has been handed a prison sentence after using the digital currency for ill-gotten gains. The 33-year old has been sentenced to four years and three months after pleading guilty to laundering dirty Bitcoin, a local police report states.
2019-4-8 16:33 | |
The Tokyo District Court has found Mark Karpeles, the former head of now-defunct Bitcoin exchange platform Mt. Gox, guilty of record tampering but innocent on other charges related to embezzlement and breach of trust.
2019-3-16 22:01 | |
On Wednesday, Jan. 23, the Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities (DoBS) published guidance for virtual currency businesses operating in the state. The state’s financial agency has decided a money transmission license for cryptocurrency operations is not required.
2019-1-24 21:28 | |
A Pakistani-American woman has confessed to using Bitcoin to launder dirty money to help finance terrorist organization ISIS, CNBC reports. Zoobia Shahnaz, a 27-year-old Long Island, New York resident, made the confession yesterday in front of New York state federal courts.
2018-11-27 13:12 | |
According to a report by Bloomberg, published November 13, 2018, U. S. resident named Joseph Kim has been fined $1. 1 million and sentenced to 15 months in prison for orchestrating fraudulent schemes related to bitcoin (BTC), and litecoin (LTC), thus duping his employer and several other customers of their money.
2018-11-16 00:00 | |
In a short-term win for bitcoin advocate Charlie Shrem, a federal judge has lifted the freeze on Shrem’s financial accounts in an ongoing legal battle against the Winklevoss twins.
2018-11-10 00:48 | |
After first going to prison in 2015 for laundering money used on the Silk Road, a new lawsuit by the Winklevoss Twins on November 2, 2018, has been lanced against Charlie Shrem suggesting that the Bitinstant CEO’s legal troubles are far from over.
2018-11-4 16:00 | |
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are suing early bitcoin investor and entrepreneur Charlie Shrem over thousands of bitcoin they allege he owes them from a previous business deal. The New York Times reported on Thursday that Shrem – who previously spent a year in prison for money laundering and operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business related to […]
2018-11-3 18:18 | |
An American man has fessed up in front of federal court judges, pleading guilty for operating an “unlicensed money transmitting business. ” A Department of Justics (DoJ) published a press release yesterday that details how Jacob Burrell Campos has been selling “hundres of thousands of dollars in Bitcoin to over 1,000 customers” across the United States.
2018-10-30 16:22 | |
A bitcoin trader from California has pleaded guilty to operating an unlicensed money transmission business and now faces up to five years in prison.
2018-10-30 12:00 | |
Bitcoin (BTC), Cryptocurrency–Charlie Shrem, Bitcoin advocate and founder of now defunct BitInstant, has some words on the current price volatility of the market and how investors should respond to the constant ebb and flow of cryptocurrency: “Just have fun with it.
2018-9-4 01:52 | |
News A U.S. district judge has ordered a bitcoin trader to forfeit 81 bitcoins and sentenced him to 41 months in prison for money laundering. Thomas Mario Costanzo, also known as Morpheus Titania, sold bitcoins to undercover federal agents pretending to be drug dealers, according to the Department of Justice. Japan Confirms Entrance Into the
2018-8-3 20:20 | |
A U. S. district judge has ordered a bitcoin trader to forfeit 81 bitcoins and sentenced him to 41 months in prison for money laundering. Thomas Mario Costanzo, also known as Morpheus Titania, sold bitcoins to undercover federal agents pretending to be drug dealers, according to the Department of Justice.
2018-8-3 17:55 | |
Mesa-based BTC trader gets prison for laundering money and facilitating illegal online drug purchases via Bitcoin (BTC).
2018-8-3 10:14 | |
The darknet site founded by Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road, has been offline for years now. But the legal questions behind his conviction and subsequent sentencing to life in prison without the possibility of parole in 2015, remain fresh, raw and real to Ulbricht’s advocates.
2018-7-28 23:38 | |
In a somewhat surprising twist, Amit Bhardwaj, the man behind the notorious Bitcoin Ponzi scheme, has pledged to pay back his victims in Indian rupees (INR) according to report on July 18, 2018. The Schemer’s Path Towards Prison Bhardwaj caught the attention of police and global media houses in April 2018, when the police arrested him for setting up an.
2018-7-20 19:00 | |
An individual known as "Bitcoin Maven" was sentenced to one year in jail after exchanging millions of dollars of Bitcoin illegally through Localbitcoins.
2018-7-11 17:37 | |
News A Southern Californian Localbitcoins trader has been sentenced to prison for a year for unlicensed money transmitting and money laundering. The trader, Bitcoin Maven, reportedly exchanged between $6 and $9.
2018-7-11 07:47 | |
A Southern Californian Localbitcoins trader has been sentenced to prison for a year for unlicensed money transmitting and money laundering. The trader, Bitcoin Maven, reportedly exchanged between $6 and $9.
2018-7-11 06:20 | |
The Supreme Court announced on June 28, 2018, that it will not reconsider the conviction or life sentence of Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind behind the darknet site Silk Road.
2018-6-30 23:20 | |
This week in Southern California a Los Angeles woman who called herself the ‘Bitcoin Maven’ will be sentenced this Monday after pleading guilty for illegal money transmission. According to law enforcement, the woman made close to $300,000 USD annually by selling BTC on the peer-to-peer exchange Localbitcoins.
2018-6-12 01:20 | |
South Korea just ruled that bitcoin is a legally recognizable asset, which is good news for investors, but not such good news for convicted criminals that had managed to hold onto their cryptocurrency in the past.
2018-6-11 18:04 | |