Bitcoins For Crime

A charge-sheet has been filed under the anti-money laundering law against 299 entities, including 10 persons of Chinese origin, in an investigation linked to alleged duping of investors in the name of mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoins, the Enforcement Directorate said on Wednesday.

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, processed almost $346 million in bitcoin for the Bitzlato digital currency exchange, according to blockchain data. The firm was among Bitzlato's top three counterparties by the amount of bitcoin received between May 2018 and September 2022, the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...

FBI is launching a unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure and the US Justie department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team.

They are, to hear the feds tell it, a Bonnie and Clyde for the crypto age — made-for-TikTok personalities who broke bad, glamorously, right before their followers’ eyes.

With the arrest of seven people, police today busted a gang which allegedly duped people living in the US and other countries by telling them that they need to pay tax dues, an official said.

After the bloody Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, technology companies tightened rules against hate speech and banned many extremists from using Web hosting services, social media platforms and online payment systems.

The hackers, who call themselves 'Turkish Crime Family', asked for $75,000 in Bitcoin or Ethereum or $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards.

Drug trafficking in India is on a new 'high' with anti-narcotics agencies having detected the crime being perpetrated through the cryptic 'darknet' and the clandestine and unregulated currency Bitcoin.

About $13 million in bitcoins will be auctioned in Sydney in June after Australian police confiscated the digital currency as proceeds of crime, an official said today.

A charge-sheet has been filed under the anti-money laundering law against 299 entities, including 10 persons of Chinese origin, in an investigation linked to alleged duping of investors in the name of mining cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoins, the Enforcement Directorate said on Wednesday.

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, processed almost $346 million in bitcoin for the Bitzlato digital currency exchange, according to blockchain data. The firm was among Bitzlato's top three counterparties by the amount of bitcoin received between May 2018 and September 2022, the US Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)...

FBI is launching a unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure and the US Justie department has tapped a seasoned computer crimes prosecutor to lead its new national cryptocurrency enforcement team.

They are, to hear the feds tell it, a Bonnie and Clyde for the crypto age — made-for-TikTok personalities who broke bad, glamorously, right before their followers’ eyes.

With the arrest of seven people, police today busted a gang which allegedly duped people living in the US and other countries by telling them that they need to pay tax dues, an official said.

After the bloody Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, technology companies tightened rules against hate speech and banned many extremists from using Web hosting services, social media platforms and online payment systems.

The hackers, who call themselves 'Turkish Crime Family', asked for $75,000 in Bitcoin or Ethereum or $100,000 worth of iTunes gift cards.

Drug trafficking in India is on a new 'high' with anti-narcotics agencies having detected the crime being perpetrated through the cryptic 'darknet' and the clandestine and unregulated currency Bitcoin.

About $13 million in bitcoins will be auctioned in Sydney in June after Australian police confiscated the digital currency as proceeds of crime, an official said today.