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The New York Southern District Court has ruled in favor of the United States government to intervene in a civil case against Jon Barry Thompson, who is alleged of a $7 million Bitcoin (BTC)-related fraud.With Judge Loretta A. Preska’s ruling on Nov. 19, the U.S. government — in this
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“Everyday for the thief, one day for the owner,” they say. Well, that proved true in the case of this South Korean crypto exchange, CoinUp, which the police found to be a fraudulent scheme.According to local South Korean news reports, the crypto exchange was involved in an elaborate scam worth
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The brother Ruja Ignatova, Konstantin Ignatov, has confessed to his involvement in the crypto fraud of OneCoin. He pleaded guilty to multiple charges such as fraud and money laundering.Authorities have concluded that over $4 billion was fraudulently raised internationally in what appears to have been a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. The
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The Office of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations and prosecutors for the Southern District of New York have indicted a man for allegedly participating in a cryptocurrency scheme dubbed Igobit.According to an announcement on Nov. 6, Asa Saint Clair was charged with one count of
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Belgium’s Financial Services and Markets Authority (FSMA) has made an additional update to its blacklist of cryptocurrency-related websites associated with fraud.On Oct. 29, Belgium’s financial watchdog updated its list of cryptocurrency trading platforms for which it has detected indications of fraud, by adding nine new suspect sites, bringing the
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Over the past week, news broke detailing that Oz Yosef, an executive of the mysterious firm Crypto Capital, has been indicted by the United States for conspiracy to commit bank fraud and conspiracy to operate an unlicensed money transfer service.The news came just days after Crypto Capital’s president, Ivan
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In an effort to set the records straight, the controversial crypto exchange Bitfinex released a statement on Friday, attempting to disengage itself from the Crypto Capital money laundering saga.The Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency firm made it crystal clear that it is, in fact, a victim of the money laundering case. This
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Major global crypto exchange Bitfinex has called itself a “victim of a fraud” in response to the recent arrest of the president of Crypto Capital exchange.Bitfinex will continue to recover lost fundsFollowing the arrest report on Oct. 24, Cointelegraph received a response statement from Stuart Hoegner, Bitfinex's general counsel,
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Bitfinex says it was conned. The crypto exchange and sister company of Tether claimed Friday that it was the “victim of a fraud” at the hands of Crypto Capital, a payment processor that allegedly lost $880 million of Bitfinex’s
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The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) charged a United States resident with a $7 million Bitcoin (BTC)-related fraud.In an official news release published on Sept. 30, the regulator revealed that Jon Barry Thompson of Easton, Pennsylvania, is charged with “knowingly or recklessly making false representations to customers
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