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Two more promoters of the Forcount crypto ponzi scheme – a Brazil-based scam that bilked Spanish-speaking investors out of $8.4 million between 2017 and 2021 – have pleaded guilty to their roles in the scheme. origin »
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Juan Tacuri, oe of the top promoters in the Forcount crypto ponzi scheme – a Brazil-based scam that bilked Spanish-speaking investors around the world of a collective $8.4 million – has pleaded guilty to his role in the operation, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.
2024-6-7 01:03 | |
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David Kagel has pled guilty to conspiring to operate a crypto Ponzi scheme that defrauded victims of more than $9.5 million. Disbarred 85-year old former attorney Kagel confessed to participating in a fraudulent crypto Ponzi scheme in which he and…
2024-5-30 22:10 | |
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John Bigatton, a former promoter of the notorious BitConnect scheme, has pleaded guilty to criminal charges
2024-5-18 18:52 | |
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Crypto trader Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg was found guilty by a Manhattan jury in October 2022 of orchestrating a $110 million fraud scheme targeting the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, Mango Markets.
2024-4-19 06:00 | |
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A Nebraska man has been indicted with several criminal charges by the New York authorities for allegedly conducting a $3. 5 million crypto scheme. The press release revealed that the accused could face up to 30 years in prison if found guilty.
2024-4-17 07:00 | |
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Wen Jian was found guilty by a London court on one count of Bitcoin money laundering in connection to a $6 billion Chinese investment scam.
2024-3-21 21:46 | |
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The head-trader of crypto platform EmpiresX pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit a securities fraud. The charges on the alleged are in connected with a global ponzi scheme that defraudeThe post EmpiresX: What now as head trader pleads guilty to $100 million ponzi scheme appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2022-9-9 21:00 | |
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EmpiresX’s “Head Trader” Joshua David Nicholas, 28, faces up to five years in prison for his role in the scam.
2022-9-8 22:19 | |
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A Nevada man has acknowledged to participating in the money laundering plan for the Bitclub Network, a $722 million fake crypto operation. Gordon Brad Beckstead of Henderson, Nevada, pled guilty Friday in connection with the Bitclub Network scheme, the US Department of Justice reported.
2022-3-27 08:45 | |
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A former accountant is the latest associate of the notorious BitClub Ponzi scheme to plead guilty.
2022-3-24 23:19 | |
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A Florida resident confessed to participating in a conspiracy to defraud a bank as part of the $4 billion OneCoin Ponzi scheme. The post Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Role in OneCoin Ponzi Scheme appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2021-10-21 15:52 | |
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Бывший директор и промоутер BitConnect Гленн Аркаро признал себя виновным в участии в мошеннической схеме, которая выманила у инвесторов в криптовалюты более $2 млрд. Director and Promoter of BitConnect Pleads Guilty in Global $2 Billion Cryptocurrency Scheme https://t.
2021-9-2 10:37 | |
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Former BitConnect promoter Glenn Arcaro has pled guilty to his role in the saga, but the whereabouts of the firm’s founder, Satish Kumbhani, are unknown.
2021-9-2 05:13 | |
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38-year old Larry Dean Harmon has also agreed to forfeit 4,400 BTC as part… The post Darknet BTC Mixer Operator Pleads Guilty in $300M laundering scheme appeared first on Coin Journal.
2021-8-19 13:54 | |
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A U. S. court in Seattle has sentenced a former Microsoft engineer to 9 years in prison after finding him guilty of 18 federal felonies relating to his elaborate scheme to defraud the tech giant $10 million.
2020-11-11 21:10 | |
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According to a press release published on Monday, Sep 28, a Bulgarian national has been found guilty in a U. S. court for his role in a multi-million dollar fraud scheme. The person in question, Rossen Iossifov, is the 53-year-old Bulgarian owner of cryptocurrency exchange ‘RG Coins.
2020-9-29 17:05 | |
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The founder of the Bitclub Network admitted charges against him of selling unregistered securities and filing a false tax return. The damage from Bitclub's actions is estimated at $722 million.
2020-9-9 23:04 | |
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A Bitclub Network Ponzi scheme promoter has admitted to charges of selling unregistered securities and to subscribing to a false tax return in connection with his role in the $722 million fraud scam.
2020-9-7 02:45 | |
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50-year-old Joseph Abel pleaded guilty to securities and tax related offenses.
2020-9-4 00:51 | |
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One of four men charged with defrauding investors of over $722 million through a long-running cryptomining scheme has pleaded guilty to charges against him.
2020-7-11 12:22 | |
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The operator of an allegedly fraudulent crypto escrow scheme accused of misappropriating $7 million from two clients is expected to plead guilty in September.
2020-7-9 04:33 | |
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A software engineer who worked for Microsoft has been found guilty of a complex $10 million scheme to embezzle funds using Bitcoin
2020-2-27 12:30 | |
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Steve Chen agreed to plead guilty to tax evasion and conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with the $147 million Gemcoin scheme.
2020-2-20 00:26 | |
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The Onecoin scam, a multi-level Ponzi scheme that acquired $4 billion from investors has been falling apart at the seams. Criminal proceedings have started against Onecoin leaders and one alleged associate who was found guilty of laundering $400 million has asked a New York judge for more time to process an acquittal motion.
2019-12-11 22:30 | |
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The operator of the CabbageTech cryptocurrency investment scheme has pleaded guilty to wire fraud
2019-6-24 19:30 | |
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By CCN: Konstantin Ignatov, the CEO of the multi-billion-dollar “crypto” Ponzi scheme OneCoin, has pleaded not guilty to wire fraud. According to court documents, Ignatov entered the plea during a May 28 preliminary hearing via conference call.
2019-6-8 01:20 | |
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On May 28th, Konstantin Ignatov attended the preliminary hearing after the Department of Justice (DOJ) had charged him with conspiracy to commit wire fraud in March. Ignatov was charged for his role as the leader on the OneCoin Ponzi scheme.
2019-6-1 21:30 | |
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By CCN: An Australian woman who faked cancer and duped people into buying her products, Belle Gibson, may have used the proceeds of her fraudulent scheme to trade crypto among other assets. This emerged after she appeared in court over her failure to pay a $285,000 (AUD$410,000) fine, per The Guardian.
2019-5-15 17:02 | |
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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 | |
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The founder of a scheme called Bitcointopia to sell land in the U. S. state of Nevada to bitcoiners has admitted in a federal court that some land was not his to sell. Previously arrested for selling BTC to an undercover agent through Localbitcoins, he also pleaded guilty to running an unlicensed money transmitting business.
2019-3-10 10:15 | |
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A Texas man, formerly a citizen of Somer, has been sentenced to 21 months in prison for his involvement in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme worth $9 million. Homero Joshua Garza, the 33-year-old convict, will be put under three years of supervised release after his jail term ends.
2018-9-15 07:00 | |
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A Singapore court has sentenced a man to two years in jail for his involvement in a crypto theft that resulted in the loss of assets valued at more than $6.9 million. Man sentenced to 2 years in jail over…
A couple in western Paris was held hostage and forced to transfer roughly €900,000 ($980,000) in Bitcoin after three criminals posing as police officers broke into their home in what appears to be the latest crypto “wrench attack.” The attack…
A cryptocurrency holder has claimed that attackers stole roughly $24 million in a crypto robbery following a violent assault, with blockchain security analysts now tracking the movement of the funds on-chain.
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An editor affiliated with YouTube star MrBeast has been fined more than $20,000 and suspended from trading platform Kalshi for two years after the company found he engaged in insider trading tied to event contracts related to the creator’s content.…
Chinese national Zhimin Qian has been convicted of illegally acquiring and possessing 61,000 BTC after five years of allegedly ‘evading justice.’ The woman has been known as the goddess of wealth in China due to her crypto-related schemes. According to…
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