2020-9-1 19:00 |
The way law enforcement agencies deal with seized crypto could indicate their de-facto acceptance of the asset class.
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Brazil's new law could significantly deter organized crime by reallocating seized crypto assets to bolster public security funding. The post Brazil enacts new law to convert seized crypto into public funds appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
2026-3-27 17:54 | |
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German authorities confiscated 13 crypto ATMs and seized nearly $28 million in cash across 35 locations. It’s been quite the summer for Germany and crypto. German authorities have faced criticism for their negative stance on crypto after selling seized Bitcoin…
2024-8-20 21:04 | |
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Police in South Korea has seized Coinbit, the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the country, over allegations of wash trading activity, amounting to over 100 billion WON ($84 million) in faked income.
2020-8-28 01:31 | |
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Police in South Korea on Wednesday raided and seized the offices of Coinbit, the country’s third largest crypto exchange, over allegations it faked 99% of its trading volume. According to a report from Seoul News, local police took control of Coinbit’s headquarters in Gangnam as well as other sites elsewhere.
2020-8-28 07:45 | |
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South Korea's third-largest crypto exchange has reportedly been seized by police over allegations it faked most of its trading volume.
2020-8-26 12:35 | |
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Venezuela has blocked the main opposition from distributing $18 million worth of cash previously seized by the U. S. from the Nicolas Maduro government. The money is being dished out via peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Airtm to 62,000 healthcare workers starting Monday.
2020-8-26 09:30 | |
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The Japanese court seized $46,000 after a Hokkaido doctor was arrested for purchasing stolen... The post Japanese authorities seize crypto from account linked to the 2018 Coincheck hack appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-8-21 11:57 | |
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The German police have seized millions in Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash from the defunct...
The post Germany seizes nearly $30M in crypto from movie2k.to appeared first on Coin Journal.
2020-8-7 11:43 | |
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Bitcoin investor Jim Harper has sued the U. S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), its commissioner, and a number of federal agents. He alleged that they unlawfully seized his private financial information from three cryptocurrency exchanges.
2020-7-17 21:14 | |
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A $14 million smart contract scam has been tracked down by the Chinese police. According to reports from a Chinese media outlet, the team of scammers who were said to have been situated in their headquarters in the Eastern Chinese province of Fujian was infiltrated by police officials who arrested the perpetrators. Allegations go as […]
2020-7-11 14:35 | |
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The novel Chinese scam saw perpetrators create fake crypto assets to fleece investors seeking arbitrage opportunities.
2020-7-9 13:30 | |
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The U.S. Marshals Service is on the hunt for a contractor to help it store and auction cryptocurrency it seizes in operations against criminals.
2020-6-10 11:01 | |
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Wilsons Auctions, a leading auctions company in Ireland and the UK, announced plans to auction over $125,000 worth of seized bitcoin and other digital currencies. Although not the company’s first crypto auction sale, this is the first online public bitcoin auction in Ireland.
2020-3-10 00:00 | |
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Chinese police has seized roughly 7,000 crypto mining units, which illegally used electric power
2019-12-23 18:38 | |
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Ugandan police have reportedly seized Samson Lwanga, a director of Dunamiscoins crypto scam which managed to get $2.7 million from the victims
2019-12-11 16:23 | |
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Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright issued another ominous warning to crypto scammers: Your con game is over, and your bitcoin can be seized. In a foreboding August 2 blog post, Wright says the grifters in the crypto space are gasping their last breaths because their house of cards will soon crumble.
2019-8-4 23:30 | |
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Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright issued another ominous warning to crypto scammers: Your con game is over, and your bitcoin can be seized. In a foreboding August 2 blog post, Wright says the grifters in the crypto space are gasping their last breaths because their house of cards will soon crumble.
2019-8-3 23:30 | |
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Authorities in Iran have reportedly seized roughly 1,000 bitcoin mining machines from abandoned factories.
2019-6-29 22:40 | |
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The world’s leading cryptocurrency mixing service, Bestmixer.io, has just been shut down by the Dutch Fiscal Information and Investigation… The post $200M in Crypto Has Been Just Seized By Dutch Law Enforcement appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-5-23 16:33 | |
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The Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has shut down cryptomixing site Bestmixer. io. According to local media, Dutch authorities moved to shut down the site on May 22, 2019, as part of a joint operation with police agencies from several European nations, including France, Latvia and Luxembourg.
2019-5-22 21:13 | |
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Did crypto mogul John McAfee fall overboard the Freedom Boat? Or was he seized by the IRS? The rumors started mounting after a tweet from his account stated “developing events have made it necessary for John McAfee to go dark.
2019-5-17 16:00 | |
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A website that provided a link between the regular internet and dark web marketplaces offering illegal goods and services in exchange for crypto has been seized. Deep Dot Web went down earlier today with a seizure notice detailing the authorities involved with the bust.
2019-5-8 00:00 | |
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The German police, along with Europol, have taken down servers of the Wall Street dark web marketplace, with six figures in crypto seized
2019-5-4 18:54 | |
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Bitfinex and Tether’s legal counsel has written a response to the New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) ex parte order, which claims that Bitifinex used Tether’s reserves to cover some $850 million in losses.
2019-5-1 01:22 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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By CCN: ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees made a valid observation on Twitter today, pointing out that there’s some degree of irony in the charges potentially facing embattled Bitcoin exchange Bitfinex: Tether had the cash reserves, despite wide speculation that the company had issued far more crypto tokens than it could settle.
2019-4-27 00:35 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has come out to defend its position after the New York State Attorney General filed a lawsuit against the company and Tether for fraud. Bitfinex maintains that the report claiming that it has lost $850 million at Crypto Capital were false.
2019-4-26 13:59 | |
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Following the New York Attorney General’s accusations of a $850M cover-up by Bitfinex, the company has issued its response. Binfinex refutes the claims as ‘riddled with false assertions’ and that the funds are not lost.
2019-4-26 10:00 | |
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Over a billion dollars have been raised for the reconstruction of Notre Dame. People with deep pockets have seized the opportunity to throw their money around, and Binance refuses to miss a marketing opportunity.
2019-4-18 17:56 | |
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As part of an ongoing criminal case, a judge in Canada has ordered that a local online drug dealer must forfeit about 281. 41 bitcoin (worth about $1. 4 million) after it was found that he used the cryptocurrency to fund his illegal activities.
2019-4-5 20:02 | |
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The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, better known as Europol, announced on March 26, 2019, that it has made an ongoing partnership with law enforcement from Canada, the United States and the member states of the European Union to target buyers and sellers of illegal items on the dark web.
2019-3-28 20:24 | |
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According to the Ukranian cyber police, an unnamed man infected a bunch of his websites with Wannacry-like malware. Police Search Reveals Intentional Infection An unreliable Google translation makes it sound as if the man’s home had been invaded and police were investigating when they discovered his activities.
2019-3-28 22:14 | |
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The U. S. Marshals is looking to hire an individual who can manage cryptocurrencies for the Asset Forfeiture Division. Over the last few years, the law enforcement agency has seized thousands of bitcoins from a variety of investigations.
2019-3-10 02:40 | |
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The U. S. Government missed out on a more than half a billion dollar opportunity. Figures released by the website Bitcoin Seized suggests that had Uncle Sam decided to hodl onto all the Bitcoin (BTC) it had seized over the past four years, it would have made a very good markup indeed.
2019-3-2 21:13 | |
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Wilsons Auctions on Feb. 28 successfully sold off 315 bitcoin seized by the Belgian police from dark web drug dealers. The 24-hour online auction attracted interest from buyers from 110 countries.
2019-3-1 18:10 | |
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Introduction In order to understand the full background behind why it can be said definitively that QuadrigaCX had one of their bank accounts raided in 2018 by Polish authorities for money laundering and involvement with criminal organizations (such as the Columbian Cartel).
2019-2-24 03:57 | |
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U.K. and Ireland-based auction house Wilsons Auctions to sell ~$430,000 in crypto that was seized by Belgian police
2019-2-22 21:39 | |
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Cryptocurrencies seized by Belgian law enforcement from online drug dealers are set to be sold off by an Ireland-based auction house.
2019-2-22 18:06 | |
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Irish auctioneer Wilsons Auctions is to sell off 315 bitcoins seized by the Belgian government in a drug trafficking case that involved the dark net. The 24-hour online auction will start at noon on Feb.
2019-2-21 08:58 | |
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Cryptocurrency has been blamed for a lot of things, but one of the biggest issues it faces is that it keeps being tied in with major crimes on the Dark Web. Though the immutability and transparency that a blockchain holds is often the reason that even Dark Web transactions can ultimately be found. That fact […]
2019-2-17 20:34 | |
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A Canadian online drug dealer, snared by an undercover police agent on the dark web, is pleading to be allowed to keep half of the 288 bitcoins that police seized from him as proceeds of crime. With prosecutors seeking a court order to forfeit the crypto stash, worth CAD$1.
2019-2-17 23:15 | |
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Two women and one man have been arrested for selling drugs over the Dark Web with an unspecified amount of cryptocurrency seized. Australian authorities said in a statement “initial inquiries.
2019-2-15 19:06 | |
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Digital currencies such as Bitcoin, Monero, or Litecoin are often hailed as the fuel that sustains darknet marketplaces. Understandably so! Long before grabbing mainstream media’s attention as a mysterious and high-tech investment option with rich potential, Bitcoin’s popularity was by and large confined to just a few small niche groups.
2019-2-3 19:59 | |
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Chinese Police arrested a group of cryptocurrency scammers following a raid in Xuchang City. The bust, which took place five months ago, was only publicized this week after a story on CCTV News. During the break-in, police seized cash valued at $1.
2019-2-1 02:07 | |
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In today’s edition of The Daily we cover reports that Robinhood is working under the radar to hire staff in London for an expansion into the U. K. , an auction of seized cryptocurrency in Northern Ireland, and comments from the founder of Fortnite developer Epic Games about rumored cryptocurrency partnerships.
2019-1-7 14:30 | |
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The GainBitcoin Ponzi scheme was among the most significant Bitcoin schemes to hit the crypto space. In addition to stirring up a new round of panic and accusations that the cryptocurrency community ought to be more properly regulated, this Ponzi scheme is linked to another scam which set the stage for the OneCoin MLM scam, […]
2018-12-23 04:02 | |
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The Times of India reported on December 20, 2018, that the cyber crime branch of Pune police had seized 452 bitcoins worth $1. 8 million from one of the ten suspects involved in a cryptocurrency related Ponzi scheme case.
2018-12-21 01:00 | |
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Deutsche Bank’s headquarters and five other offices have been raided by 170 police officers, prosecutors, and tax inspectors over money laundering allegations. The bank’s written and electronic business documents were reportedly seized.
2018-11-30 16:35 | |
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Last week police of Indian city of Bangalore arrested the co-founders of Unocoin for illegally operating a Bitcoin ATM kiosk. One of their co-founders, Sathvik Vishwanath gave a recount of his experience to Quartz India.
2018-10-31 19:51 | |
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The Russian government has approved a package of draft bills that would channel domestic crypto trading to licensed intermediaries while limiting retail access. According to an announcement from the Finance Ministry, the Russian government has approved a set of draft…
Bitcoin Magazine Russia Considers Simplified Licensing Path for Bank-Run Crypto Exchanges Russia’s central bank is weighing a plan that would allow banks and brokerage firms to operate cryptocurrency exchanges.
Crypto exchanges maintaining operational or financial connections with Russia continue aiding circumvention of international sanctions, according to an Elliptic report. The platforms provide transaction routes allowing Russian entities to make cross-border payments shielded from traditional banking oversight through ruble-to-crypto conversions.…
The European Union is preparing a sweeping ban on cryptocurrency transactions involving Russian entities, even as Russian financial firms accelerate efforts to institutionalize crypto investment products at home.
Russia’s cryptocurrency market is experiencing a surge in transactional activity, with daily trading volumes reaching an estimated 50 billion rubles, roughly $640 million, according to Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov.
BitRiver, Russia’s largest bitcoin mining operator, has entered formal insolvency proceedings after a Russian arbitration court accepted creditor claims linked to unpaid debts. The case marks one of the most significant financial failures in the country’s crypto mining industry and highlights the pressure facing energy-intensive operators as costs rise and access to capital tightens. The […]
BitRiver, Russia's largest bitcoin mining operator, is facing bankruptcy after a court initiated insolvency proceedings over unpaid debts.