The parent company of Silicon Valley Bank, SVB Financial Group, and two senior executives have been sued by shareholders after SVB’s collapse last Friday. The proposed class action accuses SVB of hidi...
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Mirror Trading International Liquidators Spent More Than $6 million on Lawyers and Investigators – Africa Bitcoin News
Liquidators of the now defunct bitcoin trading platform, Mirror Trading International have so far used approximately $4.2 million on expenses such as lawyers’ or consultants’ fees. Between Jan. 23, 20...
Bulgarian Investigators Claim ‘Cryptoqueen’ Was Murdered in 2018
The hunt for the infamous “CryptoQueen,” Ruja Ignatova, took a dark turn as an investigation by Bulgarian news outlet Bird reported that she was killed in 2018, citing documents reportedly found in th...
Putin Likely Supplied Missile System That Downed Malaysia Airlines Flight, Investigators Say
Topline Russian President Vladimir Putin likely supplied the anti-aircraft missile system that was used to shoot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in 2014, killing nearly 300 people, according to fin...
One Year Later: Federal Investigators Eyeing Squiggles NFT Creators For Wire Fraud & Money Laundering
It’s been a year since we first covered the story surrounding Squiggles, an NFT rugpull that was traced down with a full-fledged manifesto. The NFT market has seen so much come and go since this time,...
German investigators sell Crypto Queen’s house, Ignatova is still missing
Ruja Ignatova, aka the Crypto Queen, has resurfaced after more than five years in hiding. The OneCoin founder is linked to a British government filing for a London property. However, her actual locati...
Missing Massachusetts Woman Whose Husband Is Charged With Misleading Investigators
Topline Ana Walshe, a 39-year-old mother of three, was reported missing by coworkers on January 4, and her husband—whose internet records reveal he searched for how to dispose of a body—has been crimi...
US Hedge Funds Receive Subpoenas Over Communications With Binance As Investigators Probe Crypto Exchange: Report
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, is reportedly being investigated by federal prosecutors, which has led to multiple American hedge funds being subpoenaed by the Western District of Washin...
US Investigators Subpoena Hedge Funds in Binance Money-Laundering Probe: Report
Recently, Binance has made efforts to increase its commitment to compliance, growing its security and compliance staff by 500% in 2022. Additionally, last fall the company assembled a global advisory ...
U.S. investigators subpoena hedge funds associated with Binance
On Jan. 7, 2023, Washington Post reported that the federal prosecutors had subpoenaed U.S.-based hedge funds relating to Binance. Federal prosecutors are investigating the cryptocurrency exchange plat...
U.S. Investigators Subpoena Hedge Funds in Binance Money-Laundering Probe: Report
Federal prosecutors are investigating the relationship between Binance and U.S.-based hedge funds as part of a broader investigation into the cryptocurrency exchange’s possible skirting of money...
US House Investigators Say Rep. Cawthorn Improperly Promoted Crypto Token
The investigators, noting Cawthorn’s waning time as a member of Congress, said they couldn’t agree on a sanction and suggested the admonishment of the report would be sufficient. The committee directe...
Investigators Need to get Alert After FTX Hacker’s This Move
The infamous hack on beleaguered crypto exchange FTX has got an update recently. The crypto wallet account said to belong to the hacker is reported to have some movements. Given the gap between the ti...
3 Indian Crypto Exchanges on Investigators’ Radar for $3.5B Illegal Drug Transactions
Indian investigation agencies are probing three crypto exchanges for their roles in illegal drug trade transactions after they were alerted by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), which has zeroed i...
Robinhood Plans to Hire Sanctions Investigators Ahead of Self-Custody Crypto Wallet Launch
Robinhood has released a detailed job ad for sanctions investigators, covering prior experiences and day-to-day tasks. Brokerage app Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD) is reportedly looking to employ the servic...
Robinhood Seeks Sanctions Investigators ahead of Self-Custody Crypto Wallet Launch
Robinhood is seeking to hire several Sanctions Investigators for its finance crimes compliance unit as it may be broadening its offerings, according to its official Linkedin page. The job description ...
Celsius’s Troubles Keep Getting Worse as Federal Investigators Zero In on Failed Lending Firm
Alex Dovbnya The beleaguered cryptocurrency lending firm is facing investigations in various cryptocurrency states Embattled cryptocurrency lender Celsius is under federal investigations, Bloomberg re...
South Korean Investigators Deny Do Kwon Claims, Say Terra (LUNA) Founder Is On The Run
– Advertisement – Terra Founder Do Kwon On The Run, Flees Singapore. The search for Do Kwon’s whereabouts continues. After it was reported by The Crypto Basic that South Korean prosecuto...
Investigators Recover $30M In Stolen Crypto
More than $30 million worth of digital money taken from Axie Endlessness’ Ronin network has been recuperated by specialists, Chainalysis said 10% of the crypto funds snatched from Axie’s Ronin network...
Investigators Recover $30M in Stolen Crypto From Axie Infinity Hack
In brief More than $30 million worth of cryptocurrency stolen from Axie Infinity’s Ronin network has been recovered by investigators, Chainalysis said. Crypto in the March attack was valued at $552 mi...
She called herself the Mother Teresa of Florida small-business lending, but investigators say she was really running a $194 million Ponzi scheme
Johanna Garcia claimed her merchant cash-advance business was so helpful to small businesses in Florida that she was like the Catholic saint Mother Teresa. But to the 15,400 investors who sank $194.1 ...
Chainalysis Partner With Federal Investigators To Help Fight Crimes In Crypto
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis says it will be taking advantage of its software and data tools to assist federal investigators to clamp down on fraudulent cryptocurrency deals. This comes after...
Korean Investigators Raid Home Of Terra Co-Founder As Investigation Of Terra Collapse Heats Up
– Advertisement – Daniel Shin comes under scrutiny in the Terra collapse investigation. In a report today, Bloomberg has confirmed that investigators included the home of Terra Co-founde...
South Korean investigators raid 7 local exchanges in Terra probe
As part of the investigation into the collapse of Terra in May, South Korean prosecutors raided seven local crypto exchanges on July 20, according to a report by Yonhap News Agency. The report said th...
U.S. and South Korean investigators will exchange data while Terra probe proceeds
Recently, South Korea’s Minister of Justice Han Dong-hoon made a trip to New York to meet with US officials to examine possible methods by which South Korea and the U.S may work together to investigat...
Tax investigators identify potential $1 billion crypto Ponzi scheme, reports say
International tax officials have identified more than 50 leads to potential crypto tax crimes that may lead to official investigations in the coming weeks, including one case that could be a $1 billio...
Jan. 6 Defendant Becomes First Known Rioter To Speak With Committee Investigators
Topline A New York man who pleaded guilty to 10 charges related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol has testified before the congressional committee investigating the riot, according to court filin...
SEC to Hire More Investigators to Fight Crypto Frauds
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has planned to expand its special unit which was created for investigating cryptocurrency frauds and other illegal activities, The Wall Stree...
Russian security agency wants exchanges to share data with crime investigators
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) and the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) have submitted their review notes on the forthcoming “crypto bill,” developed by the country’s Finance Ministry. Law ...
Journalist Claims She Identified the 2016 DAO Hacker, Evidence Shows Investigators ‘De-Mixed’ Wasabi Transactions – Bitcoin News
An article published by journalist Laura Shin, and research stemming from the blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis, claims to identify the alleged identity of The DAO hacker who drained millions o...