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KuCoin Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Pay Nearly $300 Million in US Crypto Case
KuCoin has pleaded guilty on Monday to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. Prosecutors said Seychelles-based KuCoin had been used to facilitate billions of dollars of suspicious transactions, and to transmit potential criminal proceeds including from darknet markets and malware, ransomware and fraud.
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Binance Prevented $2.4 Billion in Losses in H1 2024, 45 Percent Were Linked to Scams: Report
Binance has reportedly managed to avert $2.4 billion (roughly Rs. 20,130 crore) in losses between January and July this year. Out of the total saved, withdrawals linked to suspected crypto scams made up over $1.1 billion (roughly Rs. 9,227 crore), which is about 45 percent of the total amount.
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South Korea Initiates Crackdown on Suspicious Crypto Activities
On Thursday, July 4, the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea released a statement alerting all crypto exchanges to ramp up transaction monitoring on their respective platforms. This move from South Korea comes as the country’s Virtual Asset User Protection Act is ready to go into effect on July 19.
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Bitget Working With FIU-IND to Obtain Licensing to Operate in ‘Key Market’ India
Bitget has called India a ‘key market’ as it said that it is working to get an FIU registration to operate in India. With the FIU registrations, crypto firms agree to implement strict KYC system, maintain transaction records, and report suspicious transactions.
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Jack Dorsey’s Block Reportedly Under Investigation in the US
Authorities in the US have reportedly identified compliance violations from Jack Dorsey’s Block firm. Among other allegations, the probing officers have alleged that Block had been processing multiple crypto transactions even from nations that are part of the US’ sanctions list.
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Binance Crypto Exchange Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US laws against money laundering at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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"Suspicious" IMPS Transactions Worth Rs 820 Crore Found, CBI Searches On
The CBI conducted searches at 67 locations in seven cities in Rajasthan and Maharashtra in connection with a case linked to suspicious IMPS transactions worth Rs 820 crore across multiple UCO Bank accounts.
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Financial Intelligence Unit Imposes Penalty of Over Rs. 5 Crore on Paytm Payments Bank
India's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on Friday imposed a penalty of Rs. 5,49,00,000 ($662,565) on Paytm's banking arm, Paytm Payments Bank, for violations in reporting illegal money routed through its accounts, the country's finance ministry said.
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US Judge Approves Binance's $4.3 Billion Guilty Plea
A US judge on Friday accepted Binance's guilty plea and more than $4.3 billion penalty for violating federal anti-money laundering and sanctions laws through lapses in internal controls at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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Found Incriminating Papers Against Telangana Congress Leader: Probe Agency
Incriminating documents indicating "suspicious and unaccounted" transactions worth several crores of rupees were seized after searches were conducted against Congress candidate from Telangana's Chennur seat Vivek Venkatswamy, the ED said.
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Steps Down, Pleads Guilty to Settle US Illicit Finance Probe
Binance chief Changpeng Zhao stepped down and pleaded guilty to breaking U.S. anti-money laundering laws as part of a $4.3 billion settlement resolving a years-long probe into the world's largest crypto exchange, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Mudrex Crypto Investment Firm Now Licenced in Lithuania, Italy Alongside in India
Mudrex, the crypto investment firm based in Bengaluru, said that it is now a registered crypto firm in the European nations of Lithuania and Italy as well as India. Launched in 2018, the company aims to make crypto investing safer. It is now looking to expand outside India and the US.
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Coinbase Plans to Push Institutional Investors into Web3, Defi, NFTs Amid Rattled India Operations
Coinbase has launched a new Prime Web3 Wallet service that would help institutional investors get safe and one-tap access to all their digital asset requirements. This would include asset custody solutions as well as instant access to dApps. To help companies stay ahead of security threats, the wallet will provide approval alerts, transaction previ...
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Pepe Coin Frenzy Turns to Fear After Anonymous Developers Make Changes to Wallet, Transfer Tokens: Report
The Pepe Coin frenzy is now turning into fear fest after its anonymous developer team moved $15 million (roughly Rs. 123 crore) worth of tokens into centralised exchanges. The team also suspiciously reduced the number of signatures required to process PEPE transactions from five to two, leading to concerns among the PEPE community.
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Suspicious Transactions Worth $390 Million Scanned by Law Enforcement Agencies in Last 5 Months: WazirX
WazirX received 431 requests from law enforcement agencies on transactions worth $390 million (roughly Rs. 3,222 crore) in the last five months. In its fourth transparency report, the exchange claimed that it has blocked over 2,431 accounts after they were red-flagged by its internal transaction monitoring process or by law enforcement agencies.
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KuCoin Pleads Guilty, Agrees to Pay Nearly $300 Million in US Crypto Case
KuCoin has pleaded guilty on Monday to operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. Prosecutors said Seychelles-based KuCoin had been used to facilitate billions of dollars of suspicious transactions, and to transmit potential criminal proceeds including from darknet markets and malware, ransomware and fraud.
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Binance Prevented $2.4 Billion in Losses in H1 2024, 45 Percent Were Linked to Scams: Report
Binance has reportedly managed to avert $2.4 billion (roughly Rs. 20,130 crore) in losses between January and July this year. Out of the total saved, withdrawals linked to suspected crypto scams made up over $1.1 billion (roughly Rs. 9,227 crore), which is about 45 percent of the total amount.
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South Korea Initiates Crackdown on Suspicious Crypto Activities
On Thursday, July 4, the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea released a statement alerting all crypto exchanges to ramp up transaction monitoring on their respective platforms. This move from South Korea comes as the country’s Virtual Asset User Protection Act is ready to go into effect on July 19.
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Bitget Working With FIU-IND to Obtain Licensing to Operate in ‘Key Market’ India
Bitget has called India a ‘key market’ as it said that it is working to get an FIU registration to operate in India. With the FIU registrations, crypto firms agree to implement strict KYC system, maintain transaction records, and report suspicious transactions.
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Jack Dorsey’s Block Reportedly Under Investigation in the US
Authorities in the US have reportedly identified compliance violations from Jack Dorsey’s Block firm. Among other allegations, the probing officers have alleged that Block had been processing multiple crypto transactions even from nations that are part of the US’ sanctions list.
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Binance Crypto Exchange Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced to 4 Months in Prison
Changpeng Zhao, the former chief executive of Binance, was sentenced on Tuesday to four months in prison after pleading guilty to violating US laws against money laundering at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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"Suspicious" IMPS Transactions Worth Rs 820 Crore Found, CBI Searches On
The CBI conducted searches at 67 locations in seven cities in Rajasthan and Maharashtra in connection with a case linked to suspicious IMPS transactions worth Rs 820 crore across multiple UCO Bank accounts.
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Financial Intelligence Unit Imposes Penalty of Over Rs. 5 Crore on Paytm Payments Bank
India's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) on Friday imposed a penalty of Rs. 5,49,00,000 ($662,565) on Paytm's banking arm, Paytm Payments Bank, for violations in reporting illegal money routed through its accounts, the country's finance ministry said.
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US Judge Approves Binance's $4.3 Billion Guilty Plea
A US judge on Friday accepted Binance's guilty plea and more than $4.3 billion penalty for violating federal anti-money laundering and sanctions laws through lapses in internal controls at the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange.
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Found Incriminating Papers Against Telangana Congress Leader: Probe Agency
Incriminating documents indicating "suspicious and unaccounted" transactions worth several crores of rupees were seized after searches were conducted against Congress candidate from Telangana's Chennur seat Vivek Venkatswamy, the ED said.
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Steps Down, Pleads Guilty to Settle US Illicit Finance Probe
Binance chief Changpeng Zhao stepped down and pleaded guilty to breaking U.S. anti-money laundering laws as part of a $4.3 billion settlement resolving a years-long probe into the world's largest crypto exchange, prosecutors said on Tuesday.
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Mudrex Crypto Investment Firm Now Licenced in Lithuania, Italy Alongside in India
Mudrex, the crypto investment firm based in Bengaluru, said that it is now a registered crypto firm in the European nations of Lithuania and Italy as well as India. Launched in 2018, the company aims to make crypto investing safer. It is now looking to expand outside India and the US.
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Coinbase Plans to Push Institutional Investors into Web3, Defi, NFTs Amid Rattled India Operations
Coinbase has launched a new Prime Web3 Wallet service that would help institutional investors get safe and one-tap access to all their digital asset requirements. This would include asset custody solutions as well as instant access to dApps. To help companies stay ahead of security threats, the wallet will provide approval alerts, transaction previ...
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Pepe Coin Frenzy Turns to Fear After Anonymous Developers Make Changes to Wallet, Transfer Tokens: Report
The Pepe Coin frenzy is now turning into fear fest after its anonymous developer team moved $15 million (roughly Rs. 123 crore) worth of tokens into centralised exchanges. The team also suspiciously reduced the number of signatures required to process PEPE transactions from five to two, leading to concerns among the PEPE community.
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Suspicious Transactions Worth $390 Million Scanned by Law Enforcement Agencies in Last 5 Months: WazirX
WazirX received 431 requests from law enforcement agencies on transactions worth $390 million (roughly Rs. 3,222 crore) in the last five months. In its fourth transparency report, the exchange claimed that it has blocked over 2,431 accounts after they were red-flagged by its internal transaction monitoring process or by law enforcement agencies.
