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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… origin »
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A US court has sentenced the CEO of Bitcoin trading firm, Praetorian Group International (PGI), to 20 years in prison after convicting him of operating a large-scale Ponzi scheme. The fraudulent investment platform, which falsely claimed to generate profits through cryptocurrency trading, misappropriated substantial capital from tens of thousands of investors globally. Related Reading: Crypto’s […]
2026-2-15 22:00 | |
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A US federal court has sentenced a fugitive to the maximum statutory prison term for his role in a $73 million crypto fraud operation that targeted victims through fake investment platforms and online deception.
2026-2-11 16:05 | |
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Chinese national Jingliang Su was sentenced to 46 months in US prison for laundering $36.9M in a USDT-based pig-butchering scheme that funneled victim funds via Deltec to Cambodia. A US federal court has sentenced Chinese national Jingliang Su to 46…
2026-1-28 11:47 | |
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A Utah man has been sentenced to three years in federal prison for orchestrating a cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme that resulted in losses exceeding $2.9 million, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Utah.
2026-1-17 02:45 | |
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Federal prosecutors said Brian Garry Sewell defrauded investors of nearly $3 million and ran an unlicensed cash-to-crypto business that moved more than $5 million.
2026-1-17 13:41 | |
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Federal prosecutors say Sewell misled 17 investors and illegally converted over $5.4 million in bulk cash into crypto through an unregistered platform.
2026-1-16 10:52 | |
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Ilya Lichtenstein, the man at the center of the 2016 Bitfinex theft, has been released from federal custody after serving roughly 14 months of a five-year sentence, according to reports. He had been sentenced in November 2024 for a money-laundering conspiracy tied to the theft of about 120,000 bitcoin, one of the largest crypto thefts […]
2026-1-4 20:00 | |
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A Maryland man was sentenced to prison this week for helping IT workers linked to North Korea infiltrate US companies. This incident fits into a wider pattern in 2025, where insider access and rising crypto theft are becoming key features of North Korea’s cyber strategy.
2025-12-6 01:50 | |
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Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Crime: Home Invasion, Sexual Assault, and $1. 6 Million Theft Results in 7-Year Sentence A Hong Kong man was sentenced to seven years in Canada for participating in a violent, sexually abusive home invasion that stole $1.
2025-11-25 22:10 | |
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Authorities in the United States have sentenced a man to 97 months in prison for his role in defrauding investors out of more than $40 million via a crypto Ponzi scheme. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 57-year-old Dwayne…
2025-6-30 11:07 | |
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A Danvers resident was convicted and sentenced for running an unregistered Bitcoin transmitting business that ignored federal anti-money laundering laws. A Danvers man was sentenced on Friday to six years in prison for running an unlicensed Bitcoin (BTC) money transmitting…
2025-5-24 12:22 | |
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A United States resident has been sentenced to over 30 years in prison for sending cryptocurrency to support the Islamic State terrorist organization. Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa, a 35-year-old from Springfield, Virginia, was handed a sentence of 30 years and four…
2025-5-10 11:11 | |
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A South Korean man in his 30s has been sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding a crypto investor of 2.93 billion won (approximately $2.04 million). The Changwon District Court convicted the man, identified only as Person A, of…
2025-4-4 17:53 | |
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Olumide Osunkoya has been sentenced to four years in prison for illegally operating cryptocurrency automated teller machines in the United Kingdom. The 46-year-old faced charges related to running crypto ATMs through his company, GidiPlus, with machines installed at multiple locations…
2025-3-1 22:32 | |
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A British man was jailed for nearly five months after failing to disclose his Bitcoin holdings during a legal dispute with another cryptocurrency trader. Graham Darby, 50, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for contempt of court but was…
2025-2-21 19:11 | |
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A Russian citizen from Yakutia has been sentenced to seven years of prison for funding the Ukrainian Armed Forces by sending cryptocurrencies to their account. According to Russian media outlet Izvestia, the man is currently being held in a high-security…
2025-1-15 13:30 | |
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DeFi app Polter became the victim of a “classic” flash loan exploit, and a man was sentenced to 24 years for crashing a bank with a crypto scam.
2024-11-19 00:00 | |
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A Chinese man convicted of espionage and allegedly receiving more than 1 million yuan through cryptocurrency has been sentenced to life in prison. The People’s Court sentenced Wang Momou to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of espionage, according to…
2024-11-9 18:25 | |
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An Indian national has been sentenced to five years in prison after being convicted of stealing more than $20 million in a crypto fraud scheme involving fake crypto websites. U. S. District Judge Kenneth D.
2024-10-19 02:30 | |
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Olumide Osunkoya pleaded guilty to FCA charges of illegal offer and use of cryptocurrency automated teller machines (ATMs). The 45-year old Osunkuya will be sentenced at a later date. Olumide Osunkoya has pleaded guilty to several charges involving the illegal operation of cryptocurrency automated teller machines in the UK.
2024-10-1 17:54 | |
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Yang Bin, the former second-richest man in China, has been sentenced to six years in a Singapore prison for operating a multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme disguised as a crypto investment operation. Related Reading: Bitcoin Mine Busted In Thailand Following Mysterious Power Outages The 61-year-old Chinese-Dutch national, pleaded guilty to eight charges that ranged from conspiring to […]
2024-8-27 23:00 | |
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Once China’s second-richest man was sentenced to six years in prison in Singapore for orchestrating a fraudulent crypto investment scheme. Tycoon Yang Bin, a Chinese-Dutch national and the second-richest man in China by Forbes for 2001, was sentenced to six…
2024-8-26 11:44 | |
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Australian authorities sentenced a man who had used other people’s identities to open accounts on crypto exchanges.
2024-6-21 10:41 | |
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A Los Angeles man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud, including stealing cryptocurrencies and NFTs by impersonating an Apple support worker and gaining unauthorized access to victims' iCloud accounts.
2023-11-29 13:15 | |
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In the latest crypto investigation by US authorities, a Los Angeles man was sentenced to eight years in federal prison and ordered to pay $1.2 million in restitution to his victims for orchestrating a series of scams in which he posed as an Apple support representative and stole non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrency. Amir Hossein […]
2023-11-29 05:00 | |
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Turkish crypto exchange Thodex’s founder and his two siblings face over 11,000 years in jail each after being convicted of fraud, money laundering, and running a criminal organization. A Turkish court sentenced Faruk Fatih Ozer — the man behind Thodex,…
2023-9-8 17:23 | |
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32-year-old New York man James Charles Rivera was sentenced to 96 years in a federal prison for selling steroids for crypto on a deep web black market
2023-8-24 21:46 | |
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China has harshly enforced its crypto ban since the start of the year, cracking down on individuals and projects alike.
2023-8-15 18:04 | |
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A New Jersey resident, John Michael Musbach, has been sentenced to 78 months in prison following his attempt to hire a hitman via the dark web to assassinate a minor he had previously sexually exploited. The objective of this heinous…
2023-7-2 13:20 | |
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Joseph O'Conner, a British man who made roughly $900,000 in an elaborate Twitter hack and a separate crypto-related SIM-swapping scheme, received a 5 year sentence from a federal judge on Friday, Inner City Press reported.
2023-6-24 00:11 | |
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In an incident revealing the nature of online crime, an individual named Robin Baxter was sentenced to over three years in prison after authorities foiled his attempts to procure a firearm and ammunition from the dark web.
2023-5-30 17:50 | |
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James Zhong, a 32-year-old Georgia man, was sentenced to one year and one day in prison for defrauding the Silk Road dark web marketplace of approximately 50,000 bitcoin (BTC) in September 2012.
2023-4-18 18:44 | |
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53-year-old former healthcare worker has been sentenced to seven years in prison by Karlsruhe District Court for extorting German retailer dm with €500,000 Bitcoin ransom and detonating bomb at one of its stores
2023-4-15 19:30 | |
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53-year-old former healthcare worker has been sentenced to seven years in prison by Karlsruhe District Court for extorting German retailer dm with €500,000 Bitcoin ransom and detonating bomb at one of its stores
2023-4-15 19:30 | |
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53-year-old former healthcare worker has been sentenced to seven years in prison by Karlsruhe District Court for extorting German retailer dm with €500,000 Bitcoin ransom and detonating bomb at one of its stores
2023-4-14 19:30 | |
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Wybbo Wirsma, a Dutch native who lived in the U.K., was under investigation for five years until he pleaded guilty in an Oxford court on Thursday.
2023-1-28 20:37 | |
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The brother of a former Coinbase manager has been sentenced to prison for cryptocurrency insider trading The individual was charged with committing the crime in July 2022 alongside two other inThe post Coinbase: Man sentenced to prison over first crypto insider trading case appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2023-1-11 23:39 | |
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The Berlin district court sentenced a man to prison time for repeated attempts to hire a hitman by paying with Bitcoin (BTC) on the deep web.
2022-12-11 12:35 | |
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A 30-year-old man from South Korea has been sentenced to 4 years in prison for sexually harassing underage children in a metaverse. The post South Korean Citizen Sentenced to 4 Years for Sexually Harassing Underage Kids in Metaverse appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-9-14 22:15 | |
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South Korean authorities have sentenced a man to four years in prison for collecting sexual content of underaged victims he met on the metaverse, South Korea-based MoneyS reported on September 11.
2022-9-13 20:57 | |
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A Swedish man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison in the U. S. for an investment fraud scheme involving cryptocurrency, including bitcoin. He defrauded thousands of victims of more than $16 million.
2021-7-9 20:00 | |
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Graham Ivan Clark, the 18-year old Tampa man responsible for hijacking several high-level accounts last year and using them to ask for BTC payments, is going to serve three years in prison following a plea agreement.
2021-3-17 01:29 | |
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Japanese authorities aren’t hesitating in hunting down anyone considered a crypto tax evader. A court in Ishikawa has sentenced one of them, a 56-year-old man that will spend one year in prison, plus pay a $200,000 fine.
2021-3-13 08:15 | |
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A South Florida federal district judge has sentenced Jose Angel Aman to 84 months in prison for his role in perpetrating a $25 million diamond Ponzi scheme. In addition, the judge ordered Aman to pay over $23 million in restitution to victims who invested in his diamond cutting business and the purported diamond-backed crypto token.
2020-12-10 18:05 | |
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Jose Angel Aman, charged with operating the fraudulent investment scheme, was sentenced to serve six years in federal prison and pay over $23 million in victim restitution by a federal court in Florida.
2020-12-10 00:56 | |
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A 21-year-old Irish man has been jailed for his involvement in a SIM swapping scheme that defrauded individuals out of $2 million in crypto holdings. The Dublin Circuit Criminal Court sentenced Conor Freeman to slightly less than three years of jail time.
2020-11-18 18:45 | |
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Prosecutors from the Netherlands have seized 2,532 bitcoins worth $33 million after a couple was convicted of money laundering by the Rotterdam District Court. The man and his wife were sentenced to two years for illegal money transmission and the court claims the couple’s bitcoin stash was used on the deep web.
2020-10-31 03:30 | |
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The Rotterdam District Court in the Netherlands has seized 2,532 bitcoins (~$29 million) from a couple convicted of money laundering on dark web platforms. According to a court statement, the man and his wife from the city of Hilversum, located in North Holland, were also sentenced to two years and two and a half years […] The post $29 Million in Bitcoin Seized From Dutch Dark Web Money Launderers appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2020-10-27 23:29 | |
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Singapore authorities have sentenced a man for robbing a Bitcoin investor of S$365,000 (U.S $267,097) in cash, to three years in prison, and 12 strokes of the cane yesterday, according to a report in The post Singapore man sentenced to prison & 12 strokes of the cane after robbing Bitcoin investor appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-9-12 22:00 | |
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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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