Cryptocurrency Seized

The government of Venezuela has joined forces with the national electrical system to identify and disconnect crypto mining farms from the power grid in the course of the coming few days. The Venezuelan Ministry of Electrical Energy (MPPPE) has already kick started a power supply control plan to bust crypto mining clusters.

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.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of funds worth Rs 90 crore, kept in cryptocurrency wallets of exchanges like Binance, ZebPay and WazirX, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an online gaming app "scam".

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of funds worth Rs 90 crore, kept in cryptocurrency wallets of exchanges like Binance, ZebPay and WazirX, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an online gaming app "s

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 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.

Over the weekend, Kenyan authorities raided the office of Worldcoin in Nairobi. As part of its raid, the Kenyan law enforcement officers have seized Worldcoin’s records and machines. Tools for Humanity, the parent company of Worldcoin, has been accused of not disclosing its true intentions when it registered in Kenya.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 1,144 crore and arrested 20 people in cases related to frauds in cryptocurrency or virtual digital assets, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said on Monday.

The CBI seized about Rs 1 crore in cash during its searches against alleged fraudsters impersonating Canadian government officials who coerced their victims into transferring their assets to cryptocurrency.

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show. Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Fi...

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted an international criminal gang that dealt in drugs using DarkNet and cryptocurrency with linkages in several countries as well as multiple states in India, sources said. The modus operandi of the drug traffickers included the use of the Darknet, cryptocurrency, digital media, UPIs, and fake KYC document...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has has attached, seized, or frozen proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 936.89 crore as on January 31, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Monday. The minister also said the ED is probing several cryptocurrency and digital fraud cases in the country, while some cr...

The Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that Indian authorities are closely monitoring the crypto sector in the absence of a concrete legal rulebook to govern it. In recent years, the ED has seized 953.70 crores from busting crimes around crypto, Sitharaman said.

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 government of Venezuela has joined forces with the national electrical system to identify and disconnect crypto mining farms from the power grid in the course of the coming few days. The Venezuelan Ministry of Electrical Energy (MPPPE) has already kick started a power supply control plan to bust crypto mining clusters.

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.

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of funds worth Rs 90 crore, kept in cryptocurrency wallets of exchanges like Binance, ZebPay and WazirX, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an online gaming app "scam".

The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it has taken possession of funds worth Rs 90 crore, kept in cryptocurrency wallets of exchanges like Binance, ZebPay and WazirX, as part of a money laundering investigation linked to an online gaming app "s

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 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.

Over the weekend, Kenyan authorities raided the office of Worldcoin in Nairobi. As part of its raid, the Kenyan law enforcement officers have seized Worldcoin’s records and machines. Tools for Humanity, the parent company of Worldcoin, has been accused of not disclosing its true intentions when it registered in Kenya.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has seized proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 1,144 crore and arrested 20 people in cases related to frauds in cryptocurrency or virtual digital assets, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said on Monday.

The CBI seized about Rs 1 crore in cash during its searches against alleged fraudsters impersonating Canadian government officials who coerced their victims into transferring their assets to cryptocurrency.

Israel has seized around 190 crypto accounts at crypto exchange Binance since 2021, including two it said were linked to Islamic State and dozens of others it said were owned by Palestinian firms connected to the Islamist Hamas group, documents released by the country's counter-terror authorities show. Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Fi...

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) has busted an international criminal gang that dealt in drugs using DarkNet and cryptocurrency with linkages in several countries as well as multiple states in India, sources said. The modus operandi of the drug traffickers included the use of the Darknet, cryptocurrency, digital media, UPIs, and fake KYC document...

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has has attached, seized, or frozen proceeds of crime amounting to Rs 936.89 crore as on January 31, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha on Monday. The minister also said the ED is probing several cryptocurrency and digital fraud cases in the country, while some cr...

The Indian finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that Indian authorities are closely monitoring the crypto sector in the absence of a concrete legal rulebook to govern it. In recent years, the ED has seized 953.70 crores from busting crimes around crypto, Sitharaman said.

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)...