Two Chinese intelligence officers are facing criminal charges in the US for allegedly attempting to steal court documents and bribing an FBI agent with Bitcoin (BTC). According to a new statement from...
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S. Korean Prosecutors Request Eight Year Prison Sentence for Ex-Bithumb Chairman on $70M Fraud Charges
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US DOJ charges two Chinese agents for bribing FBI agent with BTC
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has charged two Chinese intelligence agents for allegedly paying $61,000 in Bitcoin to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) “double” agent. According to the DOJ...
DOJ Charges Alleged Chinese Intelligence Officers With Trying To Interfere With Huawei Prosecution
Topline The Justice Department announced charges Monday against 13 people allegedly involved in attempts by the Chinese government to influence U.S. operations, including two Chinese nationals who wer...
U.S. Charges 5 Russians With Crypto Money Laundering to Evade Sanctions – crypto.news
The U.S. government recently announced charges against 5 Russian nationals and two oil traders for breaching sanctions. According to reports, the accused persons used crypto assets in sanction evading...
Alleged OneCoin ‘Cryptoqueen’ Associates Face Charges in Germany
Three people associated with notorious OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova have appeared in a German court facing charges over their alleged roles in a multibillion-dollar fraud operation. The associates of...
US Charges Russians, Venezuelans for Sanctions Evasion Using Cryptocurrency – Bitcoin News
A group of Russian and Venezuelan nationals have been charged by U.S. authorities for their roles in a scheme to circumvent Western sanctions and launder money on a global scale. They have been accuse...
Terra co-founder Do Kwon tells Laura Shin fraud charges against him are illegitimate
Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon does his second interview since the Terra ecosystem implosion. The incident left a $60 billion black hole and sparked a chain of events that further tarnished the cry...
Bitcoin Association pursuing criminal charges against miner mining empty blocks
Bitcoin Association, a non-profit responsible for the Bitcoin SV (BSV) blockchain, has revealed intentions to freeze block rewards and sue a malicious miner for breach of contract, according to an Oct...
Celsius crypto lender charges more than $3M in legal fees
Join Our Telegram channel to stay up to date on breaking news coverage Bankrupt crypto lending company, Celsius, has been charged over $3 million in legal fees. The fees have been incurred as the lend...
Mango DAO Offers Hacker $47M to Settle Without Pressing Charges
Mango DAO has offered a deal to the thief who made off with $100 million in crypto from an exploit in the Mango Markets platform earlier this week—a way to avoid a criminal investigation and pay off b...
French Prosecutors Charges Five Alleging of NFT Thieves
On 12th October 2022, a French news agency AFP reported a group of five people charged for allegedly stealing several NFTs. Paris prosecutors said that they put the allegation of stealing digital coll...
US Treasury Charges Bittrex With Sanctions Violations, Crypto Exchange Agrees to Settle With Regulator – Regulation Bitcoin News
On October 11, the U.S. Treasury department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced that it has settled charges with the cryptocurrenc...
Crypto Exchange Bittrex to Pay $30M to Settle OFAC Charges It Allowed Sanctioned Jurisdictions to Trade
Between 2014 and late 2017, Bittrex allowed around 1,800 people in sanctioned jurisdictions – including Iran, Cuba, Sudan, Syria and Crimea – to conduct more than 116,000 transactions worth roughly $2...
US DOJ charges man for using BTC to launder $5.4M in drug trafficking money
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has indicted California-based John Khuu for allegedly laundering $5.4 million in proceeds from drug trafficking by using Bitcoin. According to the charges, Khuu s...
Crypto Touted by Kim Kardashian Climbs 124% After SEC Charges, Token Value Dumps the Next Day – Bitcoin News
Following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charges against the socialite Kim Kardashian for unlawfully touting the crypto asset ethereummax, the digital currency jumped 124% in value....
SEC Chairman discusses instagram promotion charges 1
SEC Chairman Gary Gensler has waded into recent issues regarding promoting digital assets on Instagram. In a recent chat with the SEC boss, he mentioned that influencers must still obey the agency’s r...
SEC Charges Kim Kardashian For Promoting EMAX Tokens
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has brought charges on prominent American media personality and socialite Kim Kardashian for her role in promoting EthereumMax (EMAX). The regulatory ...
U.S. SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Crypto Asset Touting
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against American media personality Kim Kardashian for touting EMAX, a crypto asset offered by EthereumMax, on Instagram wit...
SEC Charges Kim Kardashian For Promoting EthereumMax
The post SEC Charges Kim Kardashian For Promoting EthereumMax appeared first on Coinpedia Fintech News According to an SEC press release, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused real...
SEC Charges Kim Kardashian For Endorsing Crypto Security, Pays $1.26 Mln
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday said it has charged celebrity Kim Kardashian for unlawfully endorsing a crypto asset security by EthereumMax. The SEC order stated Kim Kardashian ...
US SEC Charges Two Firms for Alleged Crypto Pump and Dump Scheme
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has accused two companies, their executives, and a supposed international gold trader, of running a fraudulent scheme to boost demand for the...
U.S., Canadian securities regulators unveil parallel charges against Cryptobontix and Arbitrade
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) have filed parallel fraud charges against crypto firms Arbitrade and Cryptobonix and their executives. The...
SEC Charges 2 Firms and 4 Individuals in Crypto Pump-and-Dump Scheme – Regulation Bitcoin News
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has taken action against two firms and four individuals allegedly perpetrating a crypto pump-and-dump scheme. “Although this case involves crypto asse...
This latest pump-and-dump scheme left SEC, OSC to file fraud charges
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) filed parallel charges against two organizations. They are Bermuda-based Arbitrade Ltd and Canada-based Cr...
SEC Charges Crypto Firms for Alleged Scam With ‘Gold-Backed’ Ethereum DIG Token
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission hasn’t forgotten about the 2017 ICO craze. The SEC filed charges on Friday against four men behind Bermudan company Arbitrade Ltd., Canadian firm Cryptobont...
US CFTC Charges Crypto Futures Exchange Digitex for Registration and Trading Violations
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) has charged crypto futures exchange Digitex and its founder and CEO Adam Todd for multiple violations associated with the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA...
Crypto Firm Hydrogen Tech Faces SEC Charges For Selling Unregistered Securities
The cryptosphere has one of its entities running into some major issues with the regulators. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been quite busy these days going after companies. This time...
SEC Charges Crypto Firm Hydrogen Technology With Market Manipulation, Selling Unregistered Securities
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against The Hydrogen Technology Corporation, accusing it of “effectuating the unregistered offers and sales of crypto asset securiti...
DOJ Charges Russian Billionaire Deripaska With Violating Sanctions—And Scheming For His Child To Be Born In U.S.
Topline The Justice Department unsealed an indictment Thursday accusing Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska and three associates with violating U.S. sanctions imposed against the aluminum tycoon in 201...