All news on the topic: Cryptocurrency

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) announced they had seized AUD 9.3 million (US$6.36 million) in cryptocurrency as part of an operation targeting the assets of the alleged mastermind behind Ghost, an encrypted communication platform used by organized crime groups around the world to coordinate their illegal activities.

A new investigation has uncovered the chains of money withdrawal through Uzbek and Russian partners of Octobank.

The SEC has filed securities fraud charges against two Apex promoters.

Scandal surrounding a halted hyrdoelectric plant has seen Croatian journalists link the project to Sasa Svalina and brother-in-law Josip Heit.

Namecheap has a reputation for being one of the most competitive domain name registration options.

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

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

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...

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

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.

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

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

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

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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

’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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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