All news on the topic: Cryptocurrency

03 Sep 2024 1283

Dmitriy Lee and Octobank: How the "overseer" of the President of Uzbekistan Mirziyoyev launders Russian money

As a number of Telegram channels recently reported, the Uzbek Octobank is used to withdraw and legalize money from Russia.

Investigation

02 Sep 2024 1009

The Russian trace of the Korean mafia Dmitriy Lee

Behind the head of the National Agency for Prospective Projects of the Republic of Uzbekistan (NAPP) Dmitriy Lee stands Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov.

Crime

19 Aug 2024 885

Cryptocurrency money laundering is increasing in Brazil

Police in São Paulo have frozen bank accounts holding over a billion dollars in an anti-money laundering operation that highlights the growing use of cryptocurrency by Brazil’s most powerful prison gang...

World

16 Aug 2024 710

Trump reveals he made $300,000 from selling Bibles and has a significant cryptocurrency stash

Financial disclosure shows presidential nominee owes $500m in civil penalties but sheds little light on solvency

Crime

15 Jul 2024 806

How crypto ATMs in the U.S. became a favorite tool for scammers

While crypto ATM operators insist they take steps to protect the public, investigators say the machines are a gift to criminal networks.

Crime

02 Jul 2024 659

Thousands have been arrested in a global operation aimed at targeting cybercrime

Authorities in 61 countries collaborated last week to dismantle multiple online scam networks, freezing 6,745 bank accounts and seizing assets worth US$257 million, including $2 million in cryptocurrency.

Crime

22 Jun 2024 669

Two dealers suspected of operating an illegal £1bn cryptocurrency exchange arrested in London

Metropolitan Police also seized several digital devices during raids on two homes in the capital

Investigation

17 May 2024 687

"From pig farm to Bitcoin mine: How Dagestan became Russia’s crypto Klondike"

In 2024, Russia stands as one of the world’s leaders in cryptocurrency mining, rivaling the United States.

World

28 Mar 2024 593

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for multi-billion dollar FTX fraud

Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in the former billionaire wunderkind’s dramatic downfall.

Finance

29 Jan 2024 692

Gran loses £10,000 to scammer who pretended to be famous TV actor

The fraudster sent Mary fake graphs which said her £5,000 investment was growing and she was later convinced by the scammers to send a further £5,000 to "activate" her wallet

Crime

19 Dec 2023 1248

Man forced to cancel wedding after parents conned out of $1M in crypto scam

The couple in their 70s, who migrated from the China to the US in the 80s 'with nothing', were hoping to help their son pay for his wedding and buy him a house but ended up losing their life savings

News

30 Nov 2023 984

Crypto scheme Coscoin collapses, leaving thousands of investors in the lurch

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News

25 Nov 2023 1036

Grandad loses life savings after building 'relationship' with woman on Facebook

Veteran and grandad Bob Nelson from Florida thought he was getting his big break but was fooled into piling his money into a fake replica of a popular cryptocurrency trading website

Investigation

22 Nov 2023 662

How WhiteBIT and Volodymyr Nosov turned Ukraine’s “digital future” into a crypto fraud playground for laundering Russian money

’Wall Street ’hustlers’ – what a surprise’, says the heroine of the movie ’Dump Money’, released in September 2023, which tells the true story of small investors’ struggle with the big players on the American stock market.

Finance

10 Nov 2023 1210

Lloyds Bank issues warning to customers as victims lose £11,000 in growing scam

On average, Lloyds Banking Group found that scam victims were losing an average of around £10,741 - this is more than any other type of consumer fraud

Crime

04 Nov 2023 845

What next for Sam Bankman-Fried as long prison sentence looms for fraudster

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has been convicted on fraud and money laundering charges, potentially facing a 110-year prison sentence, while his co-founders are likely to receive prison terms too

News

03 Nov 2023 1122

Crypto fraudsters' island lair as they partied & lived like students in paradise

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried will soon be jailed after a New York jury found him guilty on charges of fraud and conspiracy. We've taken a look at the Bahamas lair he called home

Crime

03 Nov 2023 1324

'Crypto King' fraudster's ex-lover he paid millions less and blamed for trouble

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's former girlfriend and CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, testified against her ex-boss at a month-long trial at Manhattan federal court

Crime

03 Nov 2023 852

'Cryto King' went from privileged childhood to $10bn fraud & Presidential hopes

One of the biggest financial fraudsters the world has ever seen was yesterday convicted - and now faces decades in prison. But how did young maths prodigy Bankman-Fried become a $10 billion fraudster?

News

03 Nov 2023 550

Parents sob as 'Crypto King' with privileged background faces 115 years in jail

Sam Bankman-Fried's parents, Joe Bankman and Barbara Fried, both Stanford Law School professors, broke down in tears in the courtroom as they learned their son had been found guilty of fraud and money laundering

Crime

05 Oct 2023 1255

Crypto scam victims succeed where Action Fraud fails

Cheated investors take matters into their own hands after getting no help from police

World

23 Aug 2023 526

Crypto fraudster surviving off only bread and water in jail to stay vegan

A judge said there was probably cause to believe the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, had tried to “tamper with witnesses at least twice” since his arrest

Crime

17 Aug 2023 630

Suspect in gruesome murder of crypto king 'always hated on anyone who had money'

A close friend of Christian Peev, grieving his devastating loss, has told the Mirror that the alleged murderer always hated anyone who has money and was envious of Chris because he partnered with someone he didn't like

Crime

17 Aug 2023 793

Crypto king helped bartender make money - before being 'murdered by him'

Investigators believe Christian Peev, an American who built a fortune off of investments in cryptocurrency, had helped his alleged killer, Vesco Valchinov, make money before being killed in Sofia, Bulgaria

Crime

16 Aug 2023 676

Three unanswered questions after crypto king chopped up and stuffed down toilet

The death of crypto king Christian Peev leaves unanswered questions after the American was found chopped up and stiffed down a toilet in a hotel in Sofia, Bulgaria

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