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Trump's crypto allies boast lavish lifestyles amid trail of debts
Donald Trump is the face of a new cryptocurrency business. Its key employees have a past littered w…
Katherine Long
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Crypto investor 'bitcoin Jesus' arrested and charged by the Justice Department with $48 million tax evasion
"Bitcoin Jesus" was arrested in Spain this week on charges including mail fraud and tax evasion.
Yuheng Zhan
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A Russian teen got 15 years in prison for donating crypto to a pro-Ukraine paramilitary unit: report
Danila Yakovlev, 19, tried to transfer about 5,000 rubles to the Freedom of Russia Legion, Mediazon…
Matthew Loh
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What is Telegram and why did France just arrest its CEO?
France's arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is a mysterious story with potentially global implicati…
Peter Kafka
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A crypto data leak led the FBI to America's most wanted sex trafficking fugitive. Now, the victims want his bitcoins.
Michael Pratt was on the run for three years until a data leak involving crypto wallets he'd bought…
Laura Italiano
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2 founders of a crypto mixer charged with laundering funds from the dark web
Prosecutors say Samourai Wallet, which anonymized crypto transactions, laundered hundreds of millio…
Geoff Weiss
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A crypto influencer was arrested in Hong Kong for a potential $128 million fraud involving 1,400 people
Police arrested Joseph Lam and five others on Monday for "conspiracy to defraud" investors, and nea…
Phil Rosen
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Conspiracy theory-fueled newspaper Epoch Times grew revenue 4x thanks to CFO's crypto crime proceeds, feds say
Federal prosecutors say Bill Guan, an executive at Trump-friendly news outlet the Epoch Times, laun…
Jack Newsham
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2 brothers were just charged by the Justice Department over a $25 million crypto heist that took 12 seconds
The Peraire-Bueno brothers allegedly tampered with the ethereum blockchain and funneled $25 million…
Jennifer Sor
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He taught cops how to fight crypto crime. Now he's accused of running a $100 million dark web drug market.
Until recently, Lin Rui-siang taught cops how to beat cybercrime. He was arrested this week in conn…
Joshua Zitser
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Terra cofounder Daniel Shin targeted for arrest again in South Korea's crypto crackdown
South Korean prosecutors are doubling down on efforts to arrest Terra's Daniel Shin, following frau…
Zinya Salfiti
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US prosecutors charge crypto Terra founder Do Kwon with fraud following his Montenegro arrest
US fraud prosecutors charged Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon with an eight-count indictment, including s…
Zinya Salfiti
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A person suspected to be crypto developer Do Kwon arrested in Montenegro months after the collapse of TerraUSD
An official in Montenegro said a person suspected to be TerraUSD developer Do Kwon was arrested Thu…
Carla Mozée
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The Justice Department just shut down little-known crypto exchange Bitzlato and arrested its Russian founder in what authorities claim is a huge blow to crypto crime
US authorities shuttered the Hong Kong-based crypto exchange's services, alleging that it laundered…
Morgan Chittum
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A crypto influencer has posted what she says is the first photo of Sam Bankman-Fried hanging out with his fellow inmates
Content creator Tiffany Fong says she obtained the photo of Bankman-Fried from an inmate she called…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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A teen accused of a $36.5 million crypto theft used some of it to buy a rare gaming username — which the police used to track him down
The victim, who lives in the US, was the target of a cell phone scam known as SIM swapping.
Carla Mozée
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Authorities seek arrest of man who allegedly mined crypto under a high school and stole $18,000 of electricity
In December 2021, a town found a secret crypto mining operation underneath a Massachusetts high sch…
Jennifer Sor
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Dutch police arrested a suspected developer of the US-sanctioned Tornado Cash crypto mixer and are looking into potentially more arrests
A Tornado Cash developer has been arrested for of helping money launderers on the crypto-mixing pla…