2020-11-18 07:39 |
The alleged ringleader of a Ponzi scheme that solicited $35 million for crypto mining and other investments has been arrested after attempting to flee FBI agents using a “sea scooter.”
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2020-11-18 07:39 |
The alleged ringleader of a Ponzi scheme that solicited $35 million for crypto mining and other investments has been arrested after attempting to flee FBI agents using a “sea scooter.”
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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 | |
National Police of Tenerife arrested Santiago Fuentes who is accused of defrauding up to 32,000 people in an alleged bitcoin scam, amounting to the tune of about 850 million euros (over $1 billion).
2020-10-22 22:30 | |
Santiago Fuentes, CEO of Arbistar 2. 0, was finally tracked down and taken into custody on Thursday, Oct. 22, at one of his residences in Tenerife, Spain, by police in south Tenerife, according to sources from the National Police, local news outlet Canarian Weekly reported on Oct.
2020-10-23 19:58 | |
Suspected of a BTC fraud, the alleged owner of the Russian cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e, Alexander Vinnik will start his long-awaited trial in Paris today. The trial begins after Vinnik was arrested The post Trial of Alexander Vinnik, accused of Bitcoin fraud, begins in Paris today appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2020-10-19 18:30 | |
Serial Australian conman Peter Foster, who is alleged to have netted $1. 73 million worth of stolen bitcoin by impersonating someone else, has been arrested in Queensland, Australia. According to a report by The Sydney Morning Herald, on August 20, Mr.
2020-8-26 17:13 | |
Chinese police have arrested 27 leaders and 82 others suspected of operating the Ponzi scheme.
2020-7-30 13:41 | |
Russ Albert Medlin — co-founder of alleged crypto Ponzi scheme BitClub — was arrested in South Jakarta for sexual assault on minors.
2020-6-17 23:33 | |
A woman was arrested in Burwood — a suburb of Sydney, Australia — for allegedly operating an unregistered cryptocurrency exchange. The arrest took place at a local shopping mall and police later found $60,000 in cash and $55,000 in bitcoins at her apartment.
2020-5-17 03:12 | |
The Metropolitan Police Department arrested two men on suspicion of illegally exchanging XEM into another virtual currency. It is alleged that the men received approximately 24 million XEM over the dark web from the hacker who stole NEM from Coincheck, Japan’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.
2020-3-22 16:02 | |
Dutch financial authorities have arrested two men for laundering money with cryptocurrencies
2020-2-20 13:10 | |
Roger Clark, an alleged operator behind the Silk Road darknet site arrested in 2015, has pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy to distribute narcotics.
2020-1-31 03:15 | |
Alexander Vinnik, the Russian-born IT specialist who spent over two years in detention in Greece, where he was arrested on a U.S. warrant, is now in Paris. The alleged BTC-e operator, suspected of laundering at least $4 billion through the now defunct crypto exchange, has been handed over to France after the Greek judiciary turned […] The post Alexander Vinnik Accused of Laundering Billions Through BTC-e Extradited to France appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-1-25 03:50 | |
A former leading chip designer at Bitmain has reportedly been arrested on suspicion of alleged embezzlement
2019-12-17 11:02 | |
The arrest, noted by the Shenzhen Nanshan District Prosecutor on Dec. 12 and reported by business publication Caixin on Sunday, comes amid ongoing battles between mining giant Bitmain and MicroBT, which has been a rising competitor this year challenging Bitmain's market dominance.
2019-12-16 08:00 | |
Authorities have arrested a 23-year old man over an alleged SIM swapping scheme targeting crypto execs and investors
2019-12-13 13:24 | |
New Jersey authorities announce the arrest of three founders of alleged $722 million crypto Ponzie Scheme
2019-12-11 02:59 | |
U.S. authorities have arrested three members of BitClub Network, alleging the mining pool is a long-running Ponzi scheme.
2019-12-11 23:27 | |
Thai immigration police have arrested 24 Chinese nationals in connection with an alleged Bitcoin scam call center
2019-12-6 12:38 | |
Two men have been charged with carrying out a nationwide cyber scheme. The U. S. DOJ alleges the men stole, or tried to steal, more than $550,000 in cryptocurrencies. The case comes in the wake of an uptick in cybercrime.
2019-11-15 02:06 | |
The FBI has arrested two individuals on charges of stealing and attempting to steal $550,000 in cryptocurrency by SIM swapping 10 victims.
2019-11-15 22:38 | |
Polish police arrested Ivan Manuel Molina Lee, president of Crypto Capital, for alleged money laundering.
2019-10-25 03:35 | |
The co-founder of NiceHash, the well-known cryptocurrency hash power broker, has reportedly been arrested in Germany. Matjaz Skorjanc’s arrest was made over US charges that he, along with several other hackers, is responsible for stealing millions of dollars.
2019-10-2 18:58 | |
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to extradite the alleged hacker over crimes he's already served time for in Slovenia.
2019-10-2 17:01 | |
The Dow Jones had its upward momentum sharply arrested after a bombshell news leak alleged that President Donald Trump was considering limiting US portfolio inflows to China and booting Chinese firms from US stock exchanges.
2019-9-28 22:06 | |
Two individuals in the US, including a former advisor to various blockchain projects including Ethereum, have been arrested for their alleged role in a series of multi-million dollar cryptocurrency extortion.
2019-9-19 13:57 | |
Two men have been arrested in the U.S. for alleged threats to destroy a crypto startup’s ICO and demanding millions of dollars in a shakedown
2019-9-19 01:45 | |
Russia’s second most popular sport, ice hockey, has been stained by one of its former stars in a fraudulent cryptocurrency deal. According to Russian information agency TASS, ice hockey player Igor Musatov was arrested on Sunday over his alleged involvement in a Bitcoin fraud scheme in which the victim lost approximately $700,000.
2019-9-18 15:15 | |
Philippine authorities have reportedly arrested 277 Chinese nationals that were working at an alleged cryptocurrency scam firm
2019-9-16 01:52 | |
A Thai man has been arrested for alleged involvement in a crypto crime ring that fleeced investors for 500 million baht.
2019-9-5 13:09 | |
Bangkok’s self-style “cryptocurrency wizard” arrested by police for his role in an apparent $16.3 million crypto heist
2019-9-5 11:16 | |
A web developer for one of cryptocurrency’s biggest scams has been arrested. Dhaval Mavani, who developed Bitconnect’s website was apprehended in New Delhi after being deported from Abu Dhabi. A warrant for his arrest was issued last year in August, per the Times of India.
2019-7-31 12:41 | |
Silk Road, a dark web drug market founded by Ross Ulbricht under the pseudonymous nickname “Dread Pirate Roberts” has had a critical impact on Bitcoin. While it’s associated with the dark web marketplace has forever left a stain on the crypto asset, Bitcoin may also not be where it is today if it didn’t catch.
2019-7-24 04:00 | |
The CID (Criminal Investigation Department) of India has arrested four individuals in Surat; Dhiraj Patel, Vijay Prajapati, Ashiq Shaikh and Kamruddin Syed in connection with an alleged cryptocurrency ponzi scheme.
2019-7-7 19:06 | |
Russian police have arrested the alleged creator of a Kazakh crypto pyramid scheme who confessed to illegally crossing the Russian border on horseback
2019-5-29 16:18 | |
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has charged a government employee alleged to have misused government IT infrastructure for personal cryptomining operations, per a press release.
2019-5-22 18:47 | |
By CCN: Crypto investor and entrepreneur Michael Terpin was awarded $75. 8 million in California’s Supreme Court in a civil judgment against a man Terpin claims stole cryptocurrency assets from him.
2019-5-13 22:45 | |
Despite how transparent Bitcoin is, people still keep using it for crimes. Eight people were arrested in Spain recently for an alleged money laundering scheme which was said to involve cryptocurrencies, according to the Europol.
2019-5-9 00:35 | |
Centra Tech’s founders seem to be in hot water. Sorhab Sharma, Robert Farkas, and Raymond Trapani were arrested in April 2018 for allegedly trying to defraud investors through a token sale. The Deputy U.
2019-5-3 20:16 | |
The State Department of Drug Trafficking in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, arrested a man for alleged money laundering using bitcoin
2019-4-25 22:00 | |
Figures from across cryptocurrency were lobbying for donations to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange April 11 as UK police arrested him after Ecuador rescinded his asylum. Ecuador President: Assange ‘Violated’ Terms Assange, who had been resident at the Ecuadorian embassy in London for seven years, suddenly found himself in police custody Thursday morning after the country’s president reversed his claim.
2019-4-11 14:30 | |
Indian police has arrested the ringleaders of an alleged scam cryptocurrency, Cashcoin, that resulted in $14 million being stolen… The post India’s $14M Crypto Scam: Police Arrest 4 Suspects of Cashcoin Which Promised Double Returns On Investment appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.
2019-3-25 10:26 | |
Alexander Vinnik, the alleged operator of troubled cryptocurrency exchange BTC-e (who is wanted in several countries for his potential involvement in a Bitcoin fraud case) has lodged an appeal for extradition to his native Russia.
2019-3-22 14:01 | |
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 | |
The alleged ringleaders of OneCoin, the multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency-fuelled pyramid scheme, have finally been busted. On Friday, US authorities apprehended brother-and-sister duo Konstantin Ignatov and Ruja Ignatova at Los Angeles International Airport over their role in the international blockchain-based scam, reports Bloomberg.
2019-3-11 14:42 | |
Konstantin Ignatov, one of the heads of the infamous OneCoin pyramid scheme, has been arrested on wire fraud charges.
2019-3-8 19:28 | |
Australian federal police (AFP) have arrested two men connected to a cryptocurrency-fused drug syndicate operating in Melbourne. According to a statement, AFP agents executed a string of search warrants yesterday, seizing steroids, Australian currency, and “cryptocurrency-related items.
2019-3-8 13:58 | |
An alleged Bitcoin millionaire, who was reportedly involved in “making it rain cash” on the streets of Hong Kong, is now reportedly accused of mining-related fraud
2019-3-1 23:05 | |
Fifteen suspects allegedly running a cryptocurrency scam which raked in millions of dollars have been arrested by police in Taiwan
2019-1-27 14:56 | |
Mpumalanga police in South Africa recently arrested two men alleged to be responsible for the kidnapping of a teenager boy in Witbank City and a 13-year-old girl in Witbank. According to the police, the kidnapping team asked the victims’ relatives for a reward in Bitcoin in exchange for the young victims’ lives.
2019-1-20 09:16 | |