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‘Keep Your Coins’ Bill Introduced To Congress Following Canada’s Emergency Seizure Of Trucker Assets
Yesterday, U.S. Congressman Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced “Keep Your Coins” legislation designed to prevent federal restriction on individual user’s virtual currency or wallet transactions. The bi...
LEO Token Pumps Post Bitfinex Bitcoin Seizure, But Why?
Bitfinex LEO Token has been rallying in the past week, as U.S. authorities allegedly captured the bad actors that took over 100,000 BTC from the platform back in 2016. LEO was created as a utility tok...
UK, first seizure of NFT for tax fraud
The first NFT seizure in history has probably taken place in the UK by HM Revenue and Customs, the UK’s tax collection agency. The fraud that led to the NFT seizure According to the BBC reports, The ...
UK’s HMRC Makes the First NFT Seizure in Tax Evasion Scandal
The United Kingdom’s tax authority, Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have arrested three suspected tax evaders and seized three Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs), a confiscation that marks the very f...
Bitfinex’s LEO Token Hits All-Time High Following DOJ Seizure of $3.6B in Bitcoin
Bitfinex’s UNUS SED LEO token (LEO) exploded to a new all-time high of $8.14 on Tuesday, shortly after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it had seized 94,000 Bitcoin stolen in an Au...
How The Crypto Couple Went From Wannabe Tech Luminaries To Targets In The Biggest Financial Seizure In Justice Department History
Heather Morgan, pictured, cast herself as an expert in “cold email” – unsolicited communications – and posted dozens of rap videos were she adopted her alter-ego, Razzlekhan. Eyepress – Newscom ...
Bitfinex’s LEO Exploded by 60% to a New ATH Following DOJ’s Bitcoin Seizure
After it became clear that several branches of US law enforcement agencies apprehended a man and a woman for conspiracy to launder nearly 120,000 BTC stolen from Bitfinex in 2016, the exchange’s crypt...
US Marks Largest Single Seizure Of Bitcoin In DOJ’s History With 94,000 BTC Seized ⋆ ZyCrypto
Advertisement     The couple Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan were arrested on charges of being answerable for the 2016 hack on Bitfinex. The couple is ac...
Justice Department Recovers Bitfinex Hack Funds In Largest Ever Financial Seizure
The FBI has arrested a husband and wife in Manhattan for allegedly conspiring to launder swaths of Bitcoin connected to the 2016 Bitfinex exchange hack. According to Reuters, over $3.6 billion worth o...
US Seizes 94,636 Bitcoin From 2016 Bitfinex Hack in ‘Largest Crypto Seizure to Date’ — 2 People Arrested – Exchanges Bitcoin News
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced the seizure of 94,636 bitcoins directly linked to the 2016 hack of the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex. This is the DOJ’s “largest cryptocurrency se...
Trump Reportedly Played Direct Role In Exploring Possible Seizure Of Voting Machines By Federal Agencies
Topline Weeks after election day, former president Donald Trump reportedly ordered his lawyer Rudy Giuliani to ask the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) if it could legally seize voting machines i...