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Netflix has ordered a documentary series about the couple who allegedly laundered billions of dollars from the 2016 Bitfinex hack. Aspiring rapper Heather Morgan and her husband, Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein, were arrested in New York this week. The Department of Justice (DOJ) also seized 94,636 bitcoins stolen from the Bitfinex
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A Japanese cryptocurrency exchange that suffered from a $60 million hack in 2018 is suing Binance for “aiding and abetting” the laundering of some of the stolen funds. According to a complaint filed by Fisco in the Northern California District Court on Sept. 14, the Japanese exchange alleged that soon after
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Mexico’s Financial Intelligence Unit recently published the results of its second National Risk Assessment. The report highlighted that the risk of money laundering in the banking sector far surpasses the issues encountered by fintech companies.According to El Economista, the so-called “G7 banking” group – BBVA, Santander, Citibanamex, Banorte, HSBC, Scotiabank,
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The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a division of the Treasury Department, sanctioned four Chinese nationals for allegedly using cryptocurrency to launder proceeds from illicit drug transactions. In a press release Friday, OFAC announced that Songyan Ji, Longbao Zhang, Guifeng Cheng and Guangfu Zheng, as well as Global Biotechnology Inc.,
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United States prosecutors told a Manhattan jury that lawyer Mark S. Scott was paid $50 million to help OneCoin co-founder and current fugitive Ruja Ignatova launder $400 million.On Nov. 20, Law360 reported that the Manhattan U.S. attorney's office and the New York County district attorney's office are in the
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