2022-12-2 00:08 |
Prosecutors in Texas have slapped 21 U.S. citizens with an assortment of criminal charges for allegedly helping various transnational criminal rings launder their ill-gotten gains using cryptocurrency
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“The government has brought the instant prosecution using ill-founded applications of criminal law to set precedent in the digital asset space,” said Nathaniel Chastain’s lawyers.
2022-8-23 22:15 | |
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Federal police in Brazil have captured a criminal organization accused of using cryptocurrency to launder funds generated from illegal gold mining. The post Brazilian Federal Police Bust Crypto Laundering Gang appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-7-9 19:00 | |
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Dogecoin: Terrorists and various criminal individuals and organizations are using Dogecoin (DOGE). The post Dogecoin Has Been Used by Criminals and Terrorists, According to Study appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-6-23 08:08 | |
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An unnamed individual allegedly sent more than $10 million in Bitcoin to an exchange in a country for which the U.S. currently imposes sanctions.
2022-5-17 00:25 | |
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The U.S. Justice Department has opened its first criminal case of sanctions evasion using cryptocurrencies, according to a federal judge. The post U.S. Department of Justice Lays First Criminal Crypto Sanctions Charge appeared first on BeInCrypto.
2022-5-16 21:30 | |
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"The use of cryptoassets to circumvent economic sanctions is a criminal offence,” said U.K. regulators.
2022-3-13 01:06 | |
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The U. S. Secret service has launched a cryptocurrency awareness hub that seeks to educate the public about digital assets and cryptocurrencies, in a bid to avert the risks associated with the nascent sector.
2022-2-24 22:11 | |
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Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in China has detained more than 380 criminal groups that had used crypto for money laundering and in telecom frauds
2021-7-23 13:26 | |
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The U. S. has arrested a man on criminal charges after he allegedly defrauded the government’s Covid-19 loan programs and used the money to buy cryptocurrency and Tesla. Using PPP Loan to Buy Cryptocurrency and Tesla The U.
2021-7-13 17:30 | |
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Chinese authorities have announced that more than 170 criminal gangs have been eliminated and over 1,100 suspects arrested in the latest round of crackdown on criminal groups providing cryptocurrency money laundering services for telecom fraudsters.
2021-6-11 19:00 | |
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As prices in the crypto market surge, the other side of the market has been witnessing a rise in criminal activities. On Monday, South Korea's tax agency reportedly caught 2,400 individuals who were hThe post South Korea cracks down on tax evaders using cryptocurrencies appeared first on AMBCrypto.
2021-3-15 14:30 | |
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Owners of one of the world’s biggest Bitcoin exchanges, BitMEX, have recently faced criminal charges which accuse them of using the exchange for laundering money and conducting other criminal activities.
2020-10-2 10:19 | |
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People who are not so familiar with Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency world often associate the digital assets with crime. They see headlines about drug dealers, gun-runners, and money launderers using BTC or some other cryptocurrency and assume it was all to aid the criminal actions.
2020-7-28 12:24 | |
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Drug dealers are happily using Bitcoin on the darknet again as it soars 60 percent and now totals $601 mln ? a new all-time high, says Nathaniel Popper from the NY Times
2020-1-30 17:45 | |
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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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The criminal division of the U. S. Internal Revenue System (IRS) recently announced that it was able to identify dozens of people who were using cryptocurrencies to evade taxes or to commit crimes without getting caught.
2019-11-9 07:10 | |
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A criminal case involving a father, his daughter, Bitcoin and drugs happened recently. Brittany Nicole Green and Gregory Green were both sentenced to jail recently in the state of Montana for using Bitcoin to create a drug ring on the dark web.
2019-10-5 23:05 | |
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India’s Special Investigation Team [SIT] has observed a growing network of criminal gangs using cryptocurrencies for illicit activities like laundering money and smuggling drugs, reported Firstpost.
2019-8-31 19:30 | |
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US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin again turned his attention to bitcoin this week, warning that the Trump administration would pursue “very, very strong” enforcement of existing financial regulations to stop bad actors from using the cryptocurrency to bankroll criminal activities.
2019-7-18 16:29 | |
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High-ranking police officers in India will receive cryptocurrency training to help with investigations involving digital currency. The country’s national police academy – the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy (SVP NPA) – has launched an educational course to help officers gain an understanding of how cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology work.
2019-7-8 13:52 | |
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A drug-smuggling kingpin has been using west Dublin teenagers as young as 14 to store large amounts of narcotics bought with cryptocurrency via the dark web, reports Irish local media The Journal citing sources familiar with the matter.
2019-6-27 14:33 | |
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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 | |
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By CCN: A crypto money-laundering ring that was offering its services to other criminal enterprises has been dismantled in Spain. The Crime as a Service operation is believed to have laundered approximately $10.
2019-5-10 19:45 | |
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The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.
2019-4-27 01:30 | |
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In what the Manhattan District Attorney calls the first crypto money laundering conviction in New York, two defendants have pleaded guilty to running a drug trafficking business that laundered millions of dollars in Western Union and crypto payments.
2019-4-25 20:37 | |
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Wallet users are still lagging behind in security as an April 23, 2019 report reveals that millions of dollars worth of ether has been stolen from wallets after a criminal guessed their private keys.
2019-4-24 12:11 | |
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By CCN. com: The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office indicted three men for allegedly laundering $2. 3 million in crypto by using debit cards pre-loaded with bitcoin and withdrawing large amounts of cash at ATMs in New York and New Jersey.
2019-4-18 19:13 | |
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A 33-year-old Danish man was sentenced to four years and three months in prison after pleading guilty to charges of laundering Bitcoin. According to the verdict, the perpetrator bought Bitcoins from funds he received from identifiable criminal sources and sent it to unidentified offshore accounts.
2019-4-10 06:30 | |
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The Michigan state legislature has introduced a bill that would update its penal codes to include crimes committed using cryptocurrencies
2019-4-10 00:10 | |
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Bitcoin is not as anonymous as you might think. A Danish man has been handed a prison sentence after using the digital currency for ill-gotten gains. The 33-year old has been sentenced to four years and three months after pleading guilty to laundering dirty Bitcoin, a local police report states.
2019-4-8 16:33 | |
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As part of an ongoing criminal case, a judge in Canada has ordered that a local online drug dealer must forfeit about 281. 41 bitcoin (worth about $1. 4 million) after it was found that he used the cryptocurrency to fund his illegal activities.
2019-4-5 20:02 | |
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A court in Japan has acquitted an individual accused of embedding a cryptojacking malware in his website to surreptitiously mine cryptocurrency using the computing power of the visitors to the site. Local Japanese media platform, The Mainichi reports that the court ruled that such activity wasn’t a criminal offense. Meanwhile, Internet security experts continue toRead More
2019-3-29 20:00 | |
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Ever wanted to get off the grid? Jameson Lopp did. The New York Times has recently published his story, entitled “How a Bitcoin Evangelist Made Himself Vanish, in 15 (Not So Easy) Steps”. All began when Lopp had the SWAT team raiding his house.
2019-3-13 14:04 | |
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Most cyberattacks in the crypto space involve hackers finding a way around the security of crypto exchange platforms and gaining access to users’ funds. Last year saw the entry of a new breed of cyber extortionists that seems to be gaining ground, so much so that they were able to steal over $300,000 in bitcoin (BTC) tokens in 2018.
2019-3-1 18:10 | |
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Suspicious financial transactions filed by Japan-based cryptocurrency exchanges increased ten times over the previous year, according to the National Police Agency. The central enforcement body said Feb 28 that 7,096 out of the total 417,465 suspected money laundering cases mentioned the use of cryptocurrencies in 2018.
2019-2-28 16:41 | |
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There are two primary reasons why storing your private crypto keys in the cloud is a bad idea. First, your cloud provider represents a centralized honeypot that could experience a security breach, allowing cyber criminals to access your data.
2019-2-19 00:19 | |
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An international cryptocurrency fraud cartel has been busted by a joint investigation between US and foreign authorities. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last week that it has charged 20 people, including 16 foreigners for being part of an international organized crime syndicate that saw American citizens defrauded for millions of dollars.
2019-2-11 17:00 | |
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Two “prominent professional hacking groups” are responsible for the majority of publicly reported hacks of cryptocurrency exchanges and other cryptocurrency organizations, concludes a report published by blockchain data analytics firm Chainalysis this week.
2019-2-2 01:45 | |
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On January 17, 2019, two former executives from Komid, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, were jailed for three and two years respectively for using fake accounts to fraudulently inflate transactions on the exchange.
2019-1-22 22:00 | |
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A Pakistani-American woman is facing up to 20 years in prison after she admitted to sending Bitcoin to a terrorist organization to fund their deadly criminal operation and activities. 27-Year-Old New York Woman Funds ISIS with Bitcoin Zoobia Shahnaz, a 27-year old New York hospital technician, has admitted to a Federal Court Judge that she.
2018-11-27 20:00 | |
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A Pakistani-American woman has confessed to using Bitcoin to launder dirty money to help finance terrorist organization ISIS, CNBC reports. Zoobia Shahnaz, a 27-year-old Long Island, New York resident, made the confession yesterday in front of New York state federal courts.
2018-11-27 13:12 | |
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Joseph Kim, a 24-year old Phoenix, Arizona resident has been sentenced to one and half year in jail for defrauding his former employers, Consolidated Trading and friends over $1 million in bitcoin (BTC) and litecoin (LTC), using the funds for his personal enrichment, reported Finance Magnates on November 18, 2018.
2018-11-20 08:00 | |
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Crypto scammers and hackers have no shame at all. They are so selfish and criminal that they do not even spare important services in order to make a quick buck. For instance, we have recently reported a new case of hackers using a ransomware on an East Coast water utility company to demand Bitcoin. The […]
2018-11-7 01:55 | |
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The Winklevoss twins have filed a lawsuit against bitcoin investor Charlie Shrem, alleging that Shrem “stole” 5,000 bitcoins from them in 2012. According to a recent report released by the New York Times, Charlie Shrem has made several large purchases over the past year, including multiple real estate properties, luxury cars, powerboats and a $2 million house.
2018-11-3 20:19 | |
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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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More and more municipalities are becoming victims of hacks. For example in the US, the first half of 2018 has seen many major (or not so major) cities being attacked by bad actors using a variety of methods.
2018-10-22 17:16 | |
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An online scammer is targeting the popular cryptocurrency, Dogecoin. To date, more than 10,000 individuals have been hit by the operation, with overall losses amounting to some $24,000. Russia-based cybersecurity firm Doctor Web fingered the perp in a recent blog, spotted by BleepingComputer.
2018-10-19 17:14 | |
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Cryptocurrency money laundering laws are proving to be effective as criminals are using only unregulated exchanges to siphon their money off. The CipherTrace Third Quarter Report shows that there is $927 million worth of stolen digital currencies waiting to be laundered in 2018.
2018-10-12 15:49 | |
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A U. S grand jury has indicted a group of Russian Operatives on charges of criminal cyber activities funded with Bitcoin. This is the latest against foreign elements using the anonymity of cryptocurrencies to support illegal operations in the US.
2018-10-5 12:29 | |
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The exchange could return as a FIU-registered firm after paying the fine, the report added.
This is the third test for the Province's new tool to combat money laundering.
The Federal Reserve continues to pilot a central bank digital currency, but will not issue one without executive branch and Congressional support, the report said.
India's most controversial crypto tax, the 1% TDS levy deducted at source, should be lowered to 0.01%, according to the findings of a new study.
Standard Chartered chose Dubai to launch crypto services from. However, reading between the lines, almost anywhere is preferable to the U.S. – that’s the message coming from banks and large institutions.
The finalized rules, set to be published in the EU's official journal, force crypto firms to report on customers' holdings to be shared between tax authorities.
Two years earlier, the exchange was warned by Japanese regulators that it was operating in the country without permission.