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Albania has extradited the founder of Turkish cryptocurrency exchange Thodex to his home country where he is charged with defrauding investors. The crypto entrepreneur disappeared after his trading platform unexpectedly went offline in the spring of 2021 and was arrested last year by Albanian law enforcement. Albania Hands Over Alleged Crypto
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Faruk Fatih Özer, the founder of Thodex, one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges, facing charges of fraud and running a criminal organization, has been extradited to Turkey and was detained by police upon arrival in Istanbul, state media aa.com reported on Thursday. Source
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OneCoin's victims were allegedly defrauded of over $4 billion in the scheme, which began operations in 2014. Source
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Bahamas Attorney General Ryan Pinder announced that Sam Bankman-Fried was being extradited to the U.S. "tonight" in a Wednesday statement. Original Source
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After less than a week in Bahamian custody, Bankman-Fried appeared at court on Monday to ask a new magistrate judge, Judge Shaka Serville, to be extradited to the U.S. The hearing appeared to come as a surprise to both Bankman-Fried's local counsel, Jerone Roberts, and Bahamian prosecutors, and he was
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Faruk Fatih Öze, the founder of Thodex, one of Turkey's largest crypto exchanges, will be extradited to Turkey after being arrested in Albania in August to face charges of fraud and running a criminal organization, state media aa.com reported on Friday. Original Source
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A Latvian national has been handed over to the United States where he is accused of fraud through several companies offering false crypto investment opportunities. Ivars Auzins will appear in a federal court in Brooklyn to face multiple charges of wire and securities fraud. Latvian Authorities Transfer Alleged Crypto Fraudster to
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A Russian national suspected of laundering ransomware payments in cryptocurrency on behalf of cybercriminals targeting hospitals has been extradited to the U.S. by the Netherlands. The man was allegedly involved in the criminal activity for a period of three years before his arrest in Amsterdam last November. Alleged Russian Money Launderer
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BTC-e, in turn, was shut down by U.S. authorities in 2017, its servers confiscated and Vinnik arrested in Greece where he was on a beach with his family. Since then, three countries have been competing to extradite Vinnik – the U.S., France and Russia – with all three presenting a
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Serbia has extradited a man to the U.S. after he was indicted by a Dallas-based federal grand jury on allegations that he duped investors around the globe–several of whom are in northern Texas–out of more than $70 million.The scheme involved soliciting investments in binary options and cryptocurrency mining, the U.S.
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