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The founder of the crypto company Bitzlato, Anatoly Legkodymov, was arrested after the U.S. Department of Justice announced a significant worldwide crypto enforcement action.
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US Congressman Tom Emmer plans to introduce a bill to limit the SEC from using its funding for crypto enforcement actions. The post US Lawmaker Sponsors Bill to Restrict SEC’s Crypto Enforcement Funding appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2023-9-10 21:59 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may ramp up its recent surge of cases targeting crypto firms by once again boosting the size of its digital assets enforcement squad.
2023-3-2 23:22 | |
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Commission Chairman Behnam says his agency is gearing up for another year of significant actions in the crypto industry as he tries to ramp up his enforcement staff.
2023-2-4 20:30 | |
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission isn’t volunteering to clarify what makes a crypto token a security, but the agency showed some of its hand in enforcement documents crypto lawyers are studying like scripture.
2022-8-19 21:50 | |
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U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) commissioner Hester Peirce took to Twitter on Tuesday to voice her opposition to the addition of 20 new jobs on the regulatory agency’s crypto enforcement squad.
2022-5-3 22:43 | |
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Recent enforcement actions by the SEC and similar authorities internationally mean it is possible to make an educated guess as to how 2019 will unfold for Initial Coin Offerings (past, present, and future), crypto exchanges and the legal ecosystems that surround them.
2018-12-14 01:00 | |
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As the threat of enforcement looms large over crypto exchanges, developers continue to work on decentralized projects that hold promise in a rapidly-evolving regulatory landscape.
2018-12-6 14:00 | |
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The United States has an unclear stance towards cryptocurrency. Despite that unclear stance, however, one major U. S. regulatory authority is urging the rest of the world to follow the country’s lead in crypto enforcement.
2018-12-5 00:54 | |
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U.S. Treasury Department Under Secretary Sigal Mandelker called for global efforts to police malicious actors' use of cryptocurrencies.
2018-12-4 20:15 | |
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Zambia’s Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has recently announced that they have arrested three employees of crypto company Heritage Coin Resources Limited. They were charged for laundering about 28,000,000 kwachas which roughly equals $2.
2018-12-4 11:22 | |
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For nearly a decade, participants in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space have operated in a regulatory compliance gray zone. Recent developments — at both the federal and international levels — signal that the time for plausible deniability or unregulated freedom is coming to an end and more traditional regulations are moving to the forefront.
2018-12-3 19:20 | |
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Recent OFAC actions are just the first step in crypto sanctions enforcement, write attorneys Beau Barnes and Jake Chervinsky.
2018-12-2 14:40 | |
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On November 27, 2018, a California judge turned back the SEC’s request for an injunction against token company BlockVest, a company the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is pursuing for allegedly conducting an unregistered securities offering.
2018-12-1 22:36 | |
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Two more unscrupulous cryptocurrency scams were eliminated by Texas securities regulators. BitQyck and its bitqy token, and My Crypto Mine and its mining and investment activities, were both fraudulent projects operated to deceive the public and steal funds from investors.
2018-11-28 02:43 | |
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Mexican startup Airtm will launch a campaign to raise donations for Venezuelans, a country whose poor monetary policies have plagued it with hyperinflation. Called the AirdropVenezuela.
2018-11-28 19:29 | |
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At the hot-ticket event of the ongoing Consensus:Invest conference, SEC chairman Jay Clayton has laid out the regulator’s position across a broad range of critical crypto issues
2018-11-28 14:00 | |
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The US securities regulator is supporting the current market panic through its recent enforcement actions against ICO firms.
2018-11-20 20:47 | |
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Alabama's securities agency has lead the way on enforcement against ICO fraudsters, using investigation techniques pioneered chasing gun runners.
2018-11-20 08:01 | |
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In a blog post released on November 15, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced the issuance of revised Geographic Targeting Orders (GTOs). These GTOs require U. S. title insurance companies to identify who is behind shell companies used in cash purchases of real estate.
2018-11-16 04:55 | |
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Despite a prolonged cryptocurrency bear market and regulatory uncertainties, OKCoin, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, is expanding to Latin America launching a new exchange platform headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2018-11-15 17:45 | |
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The U. S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a press release on Friday, November 9, 2018, stating that it had fined Arizona resident Joseph Kim for perpetrating a fraudulent cryptocurrency trading scheme against his former employer and other investors.
2018-11-13 22:55 | |
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Three Directors Of Zambia’s Heritage Coin Resources Limited Accused Of Laundering $2. 4 Million Arrested Zambia’s Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) has apprehended three directors of the Heritage Coin Resources Limited in an alleged offence of laundering more than k28,000,000, which is approximately $2.
2018-11-12 20:42 | |
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Cryptocurrency exchanges will likely have to reckon with VPN access as part of any regulatory or law enforcement actions for market manipulation.
2018-11-10 15:00 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has been primarily focusing on finding ways to regulate and govern projects that involve initial coin offerings (ICOs) as their way of crowdfunding. In recent weeks, sources say that the SEC has been turning their attention to crypto trading platforms.
2018-11-9 18:12 | |
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The SEC's settlement with the founder of EtherDelta is likely the first of many enforcement actions to come against crypto token exchanges.
2018-11-9 01:30 | |
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Jake Chervinsky Says The Community Shouldn’t Overestimate Bakkt’s Impact on the Crypto Market Jake Chervinsky, a recognized lawyer and a government enforcement defense and securities litigation attorney at Kobre & Kim LLP, says not to overestimate Bakkt’s impact on the market.
2018-11-8 19:20 | |
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The Texas Securities Board pounces on two mining operations using social media and multilevel marketing to propagate a transnational web of “fraudulent crypto-mining programs”, Director of Enforcement Joseph Rotunda informs CryptoSlate.
2018-11-8 15:00 | |
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In an exclusive interview, CryptoSlate spoke with the Director of Enforcement at the Texas State Securities Board, Joseph Rotunda, who has presided over more than a hundred investigations into suspect crypto offerings since a 2017 state-wide sweep that rocked BitConnect with an emergency cease-and-desist order.
2018-11-7 02:05 | |
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A band of 11 individuals is in custody of recent hacks into emails, cryptocurrency wallets and user accounts of Bitcoin holders. The Turkish nationals are accused of masterminding the digital currency heist after law enforcement received complaints from victims who lost their cryptocurrencies to the gang.
2018-11-5 23:53 | |
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Binance has frozen multiple accounts associated with the cryptocurrency exchange Wex, citing money laundering concerns. The CEO of Binance went on Twitter recently to announce the freezing of multiple accounts owned by Wex, claiming that Binance will cooperate with law enforcement in any way possible should a criminal investigation result from alleged money laundering.
2018-11-1 01:47 | |
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The $34 million Bitcoin scam has its prime suspect named Prinya Jaravijit who was arrested in Thailand after returning to the country. Jaravijit is allegedly part of a scam which saw a man from Finland, Aarini Otava Saarimaa scammed out of over 5,500 Bitcoins, this would be worth around $34 million in today’s market.
2018-10-17 12:00 | |
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Call it an emotional outburst or a deliberate ploy to get his point across, Nouriel Roubini, aka Dr. Doom, seems to be shooting (metaphorically, of course) in the general direction of anyone who disagrees with his take on the crypto economy.
2018-10-17 19:39 | |
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has warned U. S financial institutions that the Iranian government might be dodging economic sanctions by using cryptocurrencies. The document highlights challenges arising from peer-to-peer virtual currency exchanges and encourages banks to monitor blockchain ledgers for transactions tied to the country.
2018-10-15 15:35 | |
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Blockvest is being sued the Securities and Exchange Commission for making false claims that the regulator’s approval for its planned ICO. The regulator is looking for an injunction against the defendant in return for all the financial gains of its ICO activities.
2018-10-15 18:00 | |
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Concerns are growing surrounding Iran’s use of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Monero – and soon, their own native cryptocurrency – to evade economic sanctions put in place by the U. S. , prompting FinCEN to issue an advisory on the topic.
2018-10-13 02:30 | |
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The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has obtained an emergency court order issuing the stoppage of a recently planned initial coin offering (ICO) by Blockvest LLC and its founder Reginald Buddy Ringgold III, who falsely advertised that the token sale was approved by the SEC.
2018-10-12 01:12 | |
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Criminals who believe that the anonymity of using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin will help cover up their illicit activities are actually putting their operations at risk of discovery and their identities uncovered.
2018-10-8 13:04 | |
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Every time a criminal or pirate convert digital currency to government issued ones it creates a ‘vulnerability’ according to an official with the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Let’s consider that from the start, Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general was designed with privacy and anonymity in mind, therefore these latest findings may come of some concern to those who have used Bitcoin illicitly in the past.
2018-10-4 12:30 | |
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How can I steal thee? Let me count the ways. The recent theft of more than one billion Crowd Machine (CMCT) tokens is a real-time case study of whether or not law enforcement in multiple jurisdictions can coordinate with exchanges and other crypto firms to prosecute and convict sophisticated criminals who steal difficult-to-track cryptocurrencies.
2018-10-1 17:30 | |
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When Dan Neves started a hedge fund for cryptocurrency investors, he didn’t do it with the goal of helping the government crack down on fraud, but that’s exactly what he and his team are doing. Ironically, it started, with a cease-and-desist letter to his own company from the director of enforcement from the Texas State […] The post Meet the Hedge Fund Manager Cracking Down on Crypto Investment Fraud [INTERVIEW] appeared first on CryptoSlate.
2018-10-1 10:00 | |
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According to Jake Chervinsky, a government enforcement defense and securities litigation attorney at Kobre & Kim LLP, as of now, the U. S. Congress will not be passing a crypto bill in the foreseeable future.
2018-9-30 19:00 | |
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The only sort of financial system which works at scale is one which has been decided by courts and enforced by a threat of violence. Widespread belief in the threat reduces the need for active enforcement.
2018-9-30 18:00 | |
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A bill that seeks to create a task force to combat the use of cryptocurrency in financing terrorism has just passed the House of Representatives. House Resolution 5036 (H.
2018-9-28 01:12 | |
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The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) have warned European Union member states of a future influx in Bitcoin and crypto related crime that could plague EU member states, therefore Europol have issued a message requesting each member state employs adequate resources into ensuring investigators and law enforcement teams are able to cope with this potential rise in crypto crime.
2018-9-21 15:30 | |
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In an open letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the U. S. House’s Committee on Ways and Means argues that the tax collection body is leaving investors in the lurch with its vague cryptocurrency tax codes.
2018-9-21 23:35 | |
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The European Union members should cooperate with the virtual coin sector as cryptojacking can become a regular threat, the EU law enforcement agency warned.
2018-9-18 18:32 | |
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The U. S. FBI and law enforcement in South Korea and Japan have arrested two people in connection to phishing scam that stole $800,000 worth of Ripple (CRYPTO: XRP) tokens in a joint operation reported last week.
2018-9-17 20:00 | |
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U. S. law enforcement agencies have started their money laundering investigations of Danske Bank, Denmark’s largest bank, according to the Wall Street Journal. Citigroup and Deutsche Bank have been implicated.
2018-9-16 08:25 | |
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OKEx Founder Released From Police Questioning. Denies Fraud Charges Star Xu, the founder of OKEx, one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world, affirmed that the allegations that he was guilty of fraud were fake after the Chinese law enforcement summoned him to a police station for 24 hours this week. Multiple local media […]
2018-9-13 00:11 | |
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Bitzlato’s management team was arrested during an international law enforcement operation.
A cryptocurrency exchange registered in Hong Kong, Bitzlato has mostly remained under the radar since its inception in 2016. The post A look at what’s going on with Bitzlato and its impact appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Binance was named as one of Bitzlato’s top three receiving counterparties, according to an order by the US Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN). The post Binance named among Bitzlato top 3 receiving counterparty appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Bitzlato founder and majority owner Anatoly Legkodymov has been arrested on claims of money laundering. According to reports issued by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Bitzlato, a global crypto exchange, is being investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice. The investigation is ongoing.