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The actions against McAfee by the DoJ and the IRS represent a worrying shift in the view of the U.S. government’s criminal enforcement arm.
2021-3-10 19:07 | |
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While Wyoming was luring crypto businesses, such as Ripple Labs, New York’s AG was bringing enforcement action against Bitfinex.
2021-3-1 16:47 | |
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In Mendoza, Argentina, law enforcement launched an investigation against a sports-related investment site for presumably being a bitcoin scam. Among the inquiries, authorities are investigating if they’re involved in money laundering and tax evasion.
2021-2-16 09:30 | |
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Marc Berger, the SEC’s Acting Enforcement Director, will leave the agency at the end of January. The policymaker will be remembered for leading the SEC’s potentially damaging fight against Ripple Labs and XRP.
2021-1-13 18:17 | |
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The U. S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a warning that alerts financial institutions in the United States about increasing ransomware attacks against coronavirus vaccine research organizations.
2020-12-31 03:30 | |
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Under the guise of fighting against online child pornography, American politicians are trying to effectively ban end-to-end encryption on all communication technology platforms for everyone. Newly proposed legislation could force companies like Apple, Google and Facebook to create back doors on their services to make sure law enforcement can easily monitor everything they want or […] The post US Politicians Want to Ban End-to-End Encryption on Messaging Services like Telegram and Whatsapp appeared first on Bitcoin News.
2020-2-2 22:15 | |
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Since the creation of the Silk Road, authorities have waged a war against the online drug trade with a wave of surveillance and enforcement. However, crypto-anarchists are developing new ways to evade the state’s tentacles as the next technological phase started to emerge in late 2017.
2020-1-10 02:30 | |
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San Francisco-based Kraken says the increasing number of law enforcement requests across the globe is placing a significant strain on crypto exchanges. Since 2018, several platforms have been forced to go out of business for reasons other than being victims of cyber thefts.
2020-1-7 20:00 | |
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U. S. law enforcement filed in November criminal charges against Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith because he traveled to North Korea and taught “his audience how to use blockchain technology.
2019-12-30 20:38 | |
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Internal Revenue Services [IRS] released a 2019 criminal investigation report celebrating its 100 years of law enforcement. The report entailed the fight against criminals using advanced technologies The post Bitcoin used by criminals to evade taxes: IRS' Criminal Investigation Report 2019 appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2019-12-8 16:30 | |
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A new database called the Blockchain Litigation Database is making easier for law firms to provide legal services to crypto-sector clients concerned about compliance issues with the SEC and CFTC.
2019-8-7 23:12 | |
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As per an all-new court document made available by the Northern District of California, US prosecutors have filed a formal complaint against BTC-e — a crypto exchange that is now defunct — as well as its alleged owner Alexander Vinnik.
2019-7-28 18:57 | |
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Pocketful of Quarters, the startup with a 12-year-old CEO that created the ERC-20 token "Quarters," received a no-action letter from the US Securities and Exchange Commission. The letter means the SEC will not take enforcement action against the company.
2019-7-27 00:28 | |
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By CCN Markets: The bitcoin price rocketed past $10,000 for the first time since 2018, and crypto fans are celebrating. But they’re not the only ones noticing the budding cryptocurrency bull market.
2019-6-24 18:45 | |
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As per a number of reports circulating on Twitter, protestors currently rallying against the existing Hong Kong government are moving towards cash-based payments so as to avoid being tracked by local law enforcement agencies (for expressing dissent against the current regime.
2019-6-13 18:13 | |
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John McAfee, the anti-virus software tycoon turned fugitive Presidential candidate is known for his anti-taxation views. He is also a big-time Bitcoin proponent who has been running from the SEC and law enforcement agencies for not paying his taxes.
2019-6-12 19:30 | |
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Kik Interactive Inc. , a messaging service, responded to the enforcement actions taken against it by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC]. In a press release, Chief Executive Officer of Kik, Ted Livingston, said that they had been expecting this and now, they “welcome the opportunity to fight for the future of crypto.
2019-6-5 10:30 | |
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U. S. citizen Morgan Rockcoons has been sentenced to fines and prison time for running unlicensed money exchange services on LocalBitcoins. Advertising himself on the peer-to-peer bitcoin trading network, Rockcoons made more than 1,000 transactions with hundreds of different users.
2019-6-1 18:55 | |
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Industry regulators are finally catching up with blockchain companies that have dubiously defined their tokens as "utilities" (therefore avoiding the strict issuing and management requirements of "securities").
2019-5-29 22:12 | |
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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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Two Israeli citizens have been apprehended by law enforcement based on suspicions that they developed and ran a darknet marketplace for dealing illegal goods. The Israeli police announced via Twitter that it has collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest two locals who they believe managed the dark web marketplace, which used bitcoin to facilitate trades.
2019-5-8 18:42 | |
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Two Israeli citizens have been apprehended by law enforcement based on suspicions that they developed and ran a darknet marketplace for dealing illegal goods. The Israeli police announced via Twitter that it has collaborated with the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to arrest two locals who they believe managed the dark web marketplace, which used bitcoin to facilitate trades.
2019-5-8 18:42 | |
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New York’s Police Department (NYPD) is alerting the public about phone scammers posing as Social Security Administration officials and requesting payment in Bitcoin, prepaid gift cards, and bank wire transfers.
2019-5-2 13:05 | |
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Major darknet markets come and go in eras, so it seems, and the current one may be ending. Two of the biggest digital black markets seem to be disappearing, both at the same time.
2019-4-27 21:17 | |
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The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau within the U. S. Department of the Treasury, has imposed its first-ever penalty on a peer-to-peer crypto exchange for violating AML regulations, among other violations.
2019-4-20 23:38 | |
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FinCEN has assessed a civil money penalty for a California resident accused of violating money transmission laws in his work as a peer-to-peer exchanger of virtual currencies
2019-4-20 12:29 | |
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Julian Assange, co-founder of Wikileaks and early Bitcoin supporter, was arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and faces extradition to the U. S. on conspiracy charges.
2019-4-12 19:27 | |
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By CCN. com: The Supreme Court of India granted interim bail to Amit Bhardwaj in a $300 million Bitcoin Ponzi case lodged by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The GainBitcoin founder, according to his lawyer Deepak Prakash, was suffering from kidney failure for months.
2019-4-4 13:43 | |
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FINMA, Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority, has found Envion AG guilty of receiving commercial public deposits from a minimum of 37,000 investors in the context of an initial coin offering (ICO).
2019-3-29 08:00 | |
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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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Swiss financial regulator FINMA has finished enforcement proceedings against crypto mining firm Envion, concluding that its ICO was illegal
2019-3-28 20:52 | |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has recently stepped up its enforcement actions against virtual currency exchanges and Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”) that violate federal securities laws.
2019-3-21 01:33 | |
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The short story here below started as a submission to the Dutch Information Law Institute’s science fiction contest but quickly grew into much more once I started to create a timeline to solidify the legal situation.
2019-2-22 16:34 | |
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The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine. Too slowly for some’s taste in many cases, but over the past year there have been numerous enforcement actions that... The post Authorities Increasing Enforcement Action Against Crypto Hackers, But Where Are the MT Gox Coins? appeared first on Trustnodes.
2019-2-17 20:20 | |
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Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has completed a $30 million Series B round led by American VC firm Accel and Benchmark, who led the startup's Series A funding in April 2018.
2019-2-15 19:41 | |
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is taking the SEC to task for potentially repressive policies related to enforcement actions levied against crypto industry firms. Free speech online is the EFF’s wheelhouse, but in a recent blog post, they’ve also addressed other matters in the cryptosphere.
2019-2-14 22:19 | |
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The Texas State Securities Board is the watchdog for financial scams in the state, and they recently published an annual report that revealed cryptocurrency to be one of their main priorities this year.
2019-2-8 04:29 | |
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Kik Interactive Inc. , a social media startup based in Waterloo, Ontario is planning to fight the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in court. The startup’s 2017 initial coin offering is at the center of the controversy, as reported by the Wall Street Journal.
2019-1-29 15:29 | |
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The Securities and Exchanges Commission is to decide whether they are to take enforcement action against Kin over its token sale of circa $100 million. “We’re Fighting Back,” said Ted Livingston,.
2019-1-28 16:54 | |
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Tokenized social media startup Kik says the SEC will be “doubling down on a deeply flawed regulatory and enforcement approach” if it pursues a recommended enforcement action
2019-1-28 14:56 | |
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CoinSpeaker Kik is Getting Ready for the Legal Battle with the SEC The company will challenge the U. S. regulators in court over a potential enforcement action against 2017 KIN token offering.
2019-1-28 12:36 | |
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According to Elections Canada, the agency that runs federal elections in Canada, there has been “a growing interest” in cryptocurrency donations. This trend has prompted some political parties to ask for a ruling on how best to manage bitcoin and other cryptocurrency political donations and how to navigate the various reporting systems required by both Elections Canada and the parties so that they comply with the Canada Elections Act.
2019-1-24 20:28 | |
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U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has had a busy 2018 in the cryptocurrency arena. From hearings to a series of enforcement actions to contradicting statements in public, they did their best to eliminate crypto scam.
2019-1-8 21:27 | |
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U. S. federal law enforcement authorities are among the most active criminal agencies globally against cryptocurrency infractions. A new example of this is that FBI and Homeland Security agents have reportedly raided a technology campus over unauthorized cryptocurrency trading.
2019-1-8 01:45 | |
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Last year the U. S. Securities Exchange Commission took enforcement action against initial coin offerings and other crypto companies perpetrating fraud. Many believe 2019 will be the year when regulators clamp down on rogue cryptocurrency operators.
2019-1-6 01:00 | |
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Tehran has once again targeted the users of the popular messaging application Telegram. A law enforcement official warned Iranian citizens against providing any support for the launch of the instant messaging app’s native token, the Gram.
2018-12-31 18:10 | |
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In just the last few months, the SEC has brought successful enforcement actions against EtherDelta, Paragon, Airfox, DJ Khaled and “Money” Mayweather himself, all predicated directly or indirectly on unregistered Initial Coin Offerings (“ICOs”).
2018-12-18 15:40 | |
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Steven Peikin, co-director of the enforcement division of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), recently described international cooperation as playing a critical role in facilitating investigations in the initial coin offering (ICO) sector.
2018-12-7 12:10 | |
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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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