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The Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative, or MOBI, a non-profit consortium of the world’s top vehicle manufacturers including Ford and BMW, has launched an initiative to combat fraud in the secondhand markets with blockchain-powered “birth certificates.”The initiative will leverage blockchain to track the registration and maintenance history of vehicles using MOBI’s
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Russia’s central bank digital currency, or CBDC, could contain a number of risks related to cybersecurity and fraud, according to several local financial institutions.The Association of Russian Banks, or ARB, has released its official feedback on Russia’s digital ruble project on Jan. 13. The study included 17 ABR credit institutions in Russia
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is accusing the founder of hedge fund Virgil Capital of fraud. Source
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A former Microsoft engineer has been sentenced to nine years for stealing more than $10 million in digital value from his past employer in the form of “currency stored value" (CSV) including gift cards.Volodymyr Kvashuk, a 26-year-old Ukrainian citizen residing in Washington, used the accounts and identities of his fellow
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U.S. federal prosecutors are seeking a substantial prison sentence for Robert Farkas, one of the co-founders of crypto project Centra Tech, which garnered multiple celebrity endorsements for its initial coin offering (ICO) in 2017. Farkas later pleaded guilty to fraud. In a sentencing submission filed with the U.S. District Court for
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The seizure was made after a request from Brazil for help with a large cryptocurrency fraud scheme. Source
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Spanish National Police have arrested the operator of cryptocurrency arbitrage firm Arbistar 2.0 in a crackdown on the platform that researchers and investors allege to be a massive bitcoin Ponzi scheme.The arrest should serve as a reminder to crypto investors of the value bitcoin’s traceable blockchain provides to investigators. While
Read MoreThe Singapore-based multinational banking entity DBS and Standard Chartered have completed the proof-of-oncept of their blockchain trade finance platform called the Trade Finance Registry.The two entities developed the PoC in collaboration with 12 other banks on top of the blockchain platform of Singapore-headquartered company dltledgers. dltledgers told Cryptox that the
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The head of bitcoin escrow company Volantis pleaded guilty in New York on Thursday to bilking an investor of over $3 million. He also settled parallel commodities fraud charges.Jon Barry Thompson, 49, admitted in Manhattan federal district court that his crypto companies – Volantis Market Making LCC and Volantis Escrow
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