Bitcoins Seize

The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has seized cryptocurrency worth more than Rs 130 crore and arrested a Uttarakhand-based man as part of a drugs trafficking-linked money laundering probe initiated on the request of US authorities.

Businessman Raj Kundra shared a cryptic post about staying calm late last night after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized his assets worth Rs 97.79 crore in a probe linked to a Bitcoin ponzi scam.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized properties worth Rs. 97.79 crore belonging to Raj Kundra in probe linked to a Bitcoin Ponzi scam. Raj Kundra is the husband of actor Shilpa Shetty.

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.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has arrested a woman and seized three luxury cars and some jewellery after recent raids against the promoters of a 'bitcoin ponzi scheme'.

The CBI has seized cryptocurrency worth more than $930,000 (around Rs 7.7 crore) from an Ahmedabad-based man who allegedly cheated a US-citizen posing as a senior executive of a multi-national company's fraud department, officials said.

He allegedly convinced the victim that his account on Amazon was being accessed by unscrupulous elements, and that his social security was being used from four different states to open accounts on the e-commerce platform.

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)...

The US Justice Department has seized about $500,000 (roughly Rs. 4 crore) in ransom payments and cryptocurrencies from North Korean government-backed hackers. US officials believe the hackers either extorted the money from US-based healthcare organisations or used the money to launder ransom payments.

The Finnish government has agreed on additional aid to Ukraine in the form of Bitcoin seized in criminal investigations related to doping and drug trafficking, according to a report from a local media outlet.

The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had recovered more than 94,000 bitcoin stolen in 2016, currently valued at $3.6 billion, a record seizure.

The Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell have said that a Delhi-based businessman’s cryptocurrencies were allegedly stolen and transferred to the wallets of Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian organisation Hamas.

The investigation found a total of BTC 48, a share of other cryptocurrencies, over 12,000 credit card numbers on the teenager’s computer, and the details of an additional 197 PayPal accounts.

In a recent ruling, Sweden's government is being forced to pay more than $1.5 Million (roughly Rs. 11 crores) to a drug dealer who was jailed in 2019 after the Bitcoin he had illegally amassed appreciated while he was in custody. Read all about it here.

Bitcoin mining rigs were crushed by the Malaysian police with a steamroller, a video of which has now gone viral on YouTube. The police last week crushed more than a thousand electronic rigs used by Bitcoin miners illegally, with a steamroller. Watch the video here.

The Enforcement Directorate on Saturday said it has seized cryptocurrency worth more than Rs 130 crore and arrested a Uttarakhand-based man as part of a drugs trafficking-linked money laundering probe initiated on the request of US authorities.

Businessman Raj Kundra shared a cryptic post about staying calm late last night after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) seized his assets worth Rs 97.79 crore in a probe linked to a Bitcoin ponzi scam.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized properties worth Rs. 97.79 crore belonging to Raj Kundra in probe linked to a Bitcoin Ponzi scam. Raj Kundra is the husband of actor Shilpa Shetty.

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.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has arrested a woman and seized three luxury cars and some jewellery after recent raids against the promoters of a 'bitcoin ponzi scheme'.

The CBI has seized cryptocurrency worth more than $930,000 (around Rs 7.7 crore) from an Ahmedabad-based man who allegedly cheated a US-citizen posing as a senior executive of a multi-national company's fraud department, officials said.

He allegedly convinced the victim that his account on Amazon was being accessed by unscrupulous elements, and that his social security was being used from four different states to open accounts on the e-commerce platform.

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)...

The US Justice Department has seized about $500,000 (roughly Rs. 4 crore) in ransom payments and cryptocurrencies from North Korean government-backed hackers. US officials believe the hackers either extorted the money from US-based healthcare organisations or used the money to launder ransom payments.

The Finnish government has agreed on additional aid to Ukraine in the form of Bitcoin seized in criminal investigations related to doping and drug trafficking, according to a report from a local media outlet.

The US Justice Department announced Tuesday it had recovered more than 94,000 bitcoin stolen in 2016, currently valued at $3.6 billion, a record seizure.

The Delhi Police’s Cyber Cell have said that a Delhi-based businessman’s cryptocurrencies were allegedly stolen and transferred to the wallets of Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian organisation Hamas.

The investigation found a total of BTC 48, a share of other cryptocurrencies, over 12,000 credit card numbers on the teenager’s computer, and the details of an additional 197 PayPal accounts.

In a recent ruling, Sweden's government is being forced to pay more than $1.5 Million (roughly Rs. 11 crores) to a drug dealer who was jailed in 2019 after the Bitcoin he had illegally amassed appreciated while he was in custody. Read all about it here.

Bitcoin mining rigs were crushed by the Malaysian police with a steamroller, a video of which has now gone viral on YouTube. The police last week crushed more than a thousand electronic rigs used by Bitcoin miners illegally, with a steamroller. Watch the video here.