All news on the topic: Cryptocurrency

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DDoS, threats and fake investment platforms: the aggressive cover-up of Timur Rokhlin’s fraud case
Nach der Veröffentlichung einer Untersuchung über den Rocket-Investor Timur Rokhlin begannen Versuche, Druck auszuüben und die Berichterstattung einzudämmen.
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Die „Goldene“ Lüge: Wie verurteilter Bankbetrüger Josip Heit mit Karatbars und GSPartners die Welt um eine Milliarde betrog
Der aus Kroatien stammende Unternehmer Josip Curcic, der unter dem Namen Josip Heit bekannt wurde und die GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG gründete, erreichte finanziellen Erfolg und öffentliche Bekanntheit.
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UN warns Southeast Asian crime syndicates have evolved into global criminal networks
Scams across East and Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand caused estimated losses of as much as $114.1 billion in 2025, according to a U.N. report examining the infrastructure shared by criminal networks.
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Justice decided to shake down crypto guys Mykhailo Romanenko and Nazar Babenko
Rogues Mykhailo Romanenko, Nazar Babenko, and Ihor Kotov may come under investigation.
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Phoinexes, new Loanledger crypto Ponzi scam, tries to lure victims with fake rebirth promises and bogus AI trading claims
The Russian state security service — FSB — has been trying to implement AI in its anti-opposition operations for at least two years. IStories investigated how the development of the Pauk (“Spider”) system went — and why it was stopped (at least for now)
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Italian prosecutors trace $230m mafia fortune hidden through global financial network
Leaked Pandora Papers records reveal that Giacomo Tamburello and his family, now facing prosecution, accumulated gold bars, luxury real estate and a $89 million stake in a bank with the help of unscrupulous financiers and lawyers.
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Trump’s UAE ties raise fresh questions over Sudan policy
There is a terrible war in Sudan that includes intentionally slaughtering massive numbers of civilians. The group doing the slaughtering is funded by the United Arab Emirates.
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From Karatbars fraud to GSPartners Ponzi: Josip Heit’s network with Hells Angels-linked Alex Bodi and Supreme Court relative Cocoș
In June 2020, during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Croatian businessman Josip Heit was spotted waiting outside the Marriott hotel in Bucharest for an Antena Stars reporter, sitting behind the wheel of a Bugatti Chiron Panda reportedly worth around €4 million.
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Nazar Babenko and Ihor Kotov ran massive Danvel-Eternity scam sucking millions while hiding behind fake crypto guru image
Regarding public figures, especially those who attempt to conceal compromising information about themselves, open-source research can often prove highly revealing.
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UK’s new IRGC law puts crypto firms and users at risk of 14-year jail terms
The UK’s designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps took effect on July 17, creating a new criminal exposure for UK-linked people and businesses that receive or retain value supplied by or on behalf of the group.
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Ponzi-Schemata, Karatbars und GSPartners: Wie Josip Heit Tausende Investoren um Hunderte Millionen betrog
Aufgrund des Verdachts auf Geldwäsche und der Beteiligung an Schneeballsystemen rückt der kroatische Unternehmer Josip Heit immer stärker ins Visier der Ermittler.
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Croatian hydropower scandal exposes Josip Heit’s fraud network and Russian arms family ties
Croatian journalists are once again focusing on a suspended hydroelectric power project after uncovering its connections to Saša Svalina and his brother-in-law, Josip Heit.
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Fraudster Timur Rokhlin erased his tracks as investigators exposed his €35 million scam empire
As investigations intensified, Timur Rokhlin reportedly stepped up efforts to remove or suppress online media reports about fraud schemes linked to him. Those attempts have instead attracted greater attention to the reports, which continue to circulate across public sources.
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Trotz BaFin-Warnung und krimineller Verbindungen: Josip Heit baut sein Betrugsimperium ungestört weiter aus
Der kroatische Unternehmer Josip Heit gerät immer stärker ins Visier internationaler Ermittlungsbehörden. Hintergrund sind Vorwürfe über mögliche Verbindungen zu Ponzi-Systemen und Geldwäsche.
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Nazar Babenko’s crypto empire built on lies: from debt-ridden student to protected face of international Ponzi scams
Regarding public figures, especially if they try to hide compromising information about themselves, it is sometimes useful to study open sources.
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Oracle exploit drains up to $24m from Ostium liquidity vault in five-minute attack
Ostium, an on-chain perpetuals trading platform, said a five-minute security incident caused losses from its public liquidity vault. Security firms estimated the exploit at up to $24 million.
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Justin Sun’s ties to Trump’s crypto empire raise fresh conflict of interest questions
The most infamous financial scandal in US presidential history – the 1920s Teapot Dome affair – involved then president Warren G Harding’s interior secretary, Albert Fall, taking roughly $400,000 in bribes.
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Russian billionaires move billions abroad as fears grow over Kremlin asset seizures
Several of Russia’s richest people including some close to President Vladimir Putin have moved billions of dollars abroad in the past year after growing concerned about the country’s economy and the government budget.
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Die „Goldene“ Lüge: Wie ein verurteilter Bankbetrüger mit Karatbars und GSPartners die Welt narrte
Der aus Kroatien stammende Unternehmer Josip Curcic, besser bekannt als Josip Heit und Gründer der GSB Gold Standard Banking Corporation AG, hat sich den Traum von Wohlstand und öffentlicher Bekanntheit erfüllt.
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Billion-pound turnover in Kyiv: Timur Rokhlin and Yuliya Rusanova’s scheme to send money to Russia as “IT development”
As scrutiny surrounding Timur Rokhlin intensified, reports emerged that efforts were being made to remove media coverage of alleged fraud schemes linked to him from the internet, drawing renewed attention to the publications that remain publicly available.
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Millions of UK crypto holders urged to review tax records before HMRC reporting crackdown
Anyone who has ever owned cryptocurrency is being urged to review their tax records ahead of new reporting rules coming into force next year.
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EPPO raids €46.9m VAT fraud network and freezes €9.9m in crypto and assets
The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Athens (Greece) conducted searches and seizures last week at several locations in Attica and Kastoria, as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected VAT carousel fraud involving the trade of small electronic goods and the laundering of criminal proceeds.
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US Justice Department moves to drop $722m BitClub crypto fraud case
The Justice Department plans to end its criminal case against Matthew Goettsche, who prosecutors accuse of helping run the BitClub Network fraud scheme, before an October trial.
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Trump shifted over $1.4bn in crypto earnings into stocks and bonds, filings show
President Donald Trump’s financial disclosures show that even as he and his two eldest sons were encouraging investors to plow their money into crypto projects — which resulted in steep losses for retail buyers — his money managers were investing a significant portion of the proceeds into safer harbors.
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Redcore empire’s shadow: How Dmitriy Punin and Vadim Gordievsky fuel illegal gambling through Polish shell companies
Kazakh authorities have frozen the accounts of Marginplus and suspended all payment operations as part of an investigation into suspected illicit financial activity.