TLDR NY Attorney General Letitia James froze $2.2 million in cryptocurrency and filed a lawsuit targeting job scam operators Scammers…
TLDR Russian authorities are liquidating 1,032 Bitcoin (worth ~1 billion rubles) seized from former investigator Marat Tambiev Tambiev accepted the…
TLDR Do Kwon’s US trial tentatively scheduled for January 2026 due to massive evidence review needs Over 6 terabytes of…
• DOJ authorized to sell 69,370 Bitcoin (~$6.5B) from Silk Road seizure
• Federal judge ruled in favor on December 30
• Battle Born Investments failed to block the sale
• Assets originally surrendered by “Individual X”
• Battle Born’s FOIA request to identify “Individual X” was unsuccessful
• 24-year-old Dutch law student arrested for €4.5M ($4.6M) crypto fraud
• Approximately 300 victims defrauded through investment scheme
• Suspect required €5,000 minimum investment with 50% profit fee
• Operated alleged Ponzi scheme while being known as “crypto genius”
• Continued accepting new investors despite scheme’s collapse
TLDR Early Bitcoin investor Frank Ahlgren III ordered by Texas court to surrender crypto wallet access worth $124M Ahlgren bought…
TLDR: Do Kwon pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court to multiple charges including fraud and a newly added money…
TLDR: Berman Jerry Nowlin, 21, died by suicide on Dec. 21, 2024, while awaiting sentencing in a cryptocurrency fraud case…
TLDR Do Kwon faces up to 130 years in prison after being extradited to the US and pleading not guilty…
TLDR A crypto investor lost over $520,000 worth of Chainlink (22,415 LINK tokens) through a fraudulent cross-chain bridge transaction on…
TLDR Craig Wright sentenced to 12 months in jail (suspended for 24 months) for contempt of court in UK The…
TLDR The US Treasury imposed sanctions on two individuals and a UAE company for laundering crypto funds for North Korea…
TLDR U.S. Treasury sanctioned two individuals, Lu Huaying and Zhang Jian, for allegedly laundering cryptocurrency for North Korea through a…
TLDR Arizona man Nuruhussein Hussein arrested for allegedly stealing $300,000 in crypto by posing as Uber driver outside W Hotel…
TLDR: Former pastor Francier Obando Pinillo charged by CFTC for running a $5.9 million crypto fraud scheme targeting Spanish-speaking church…
TLDR Alex Mashinsky pleads guilty to two counts of fraud related to Celsius Network collapse He admitted to commodities fraud…
TLDR Former Fortnite pro player Serpent allegedly involved in $3.5M memecoin scams through hacked social media accounts Investigation by ZachXBT…
TLDR Over 3,000 people in Tehuacán and Puebla, Mexico affected by suspected crypto trading bot scam Company AMG GPT shuttered…
TLDR Polter Finance lost $12M in a flash loan hack targeting their new SpookySwap market Platform operations were paused on…
TLDR: WonderFi CEO Dean Skurka kidnapped in downtown Toronto on November 6, 2024 $1 million ransom paid electronically for his…
TLDR: Caroline Ellison reported to Connecticut federal prison to begin 2-year sentence She was ordered to forfeit $11 billion for…
