Russia’s law criminalizing illegal cryptocurrency exchange will not be finalized before parliamentary elections, with second and third readings pushed to the new …
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Smart Contracts
Jailed Fraudster Charged With Moving $290K in Forfeited Crypto From Prison
by shayaanby shayaanIn short Rossen Iossifov, a Bulgarian national serving 111 months for laundering nearly $5 million, has been charged with conspiring to move …
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Scams
Seattle-Area Man Gets Prison for Laundering Foreign Fraud Funds With Bitcoin, Ethereum
by shayaanby shayaanIn brief A 47-year old man from the Seattle area helped defraud investors of nearly $100 million, prosecutors said. Victims thought they …
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Regulation
French-Moroccan man sentenced to 25 years in prison for France crypto kidnaps
by shayaanby shayaanA French-Moroccan man convicted of organizing some of the recent daring kidnappings of crypto figures in France has been sentenced to 25 …
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Smart Contracts
Woman Gets 71 Months in Prison Over Bitcoin Investment Fraud Targeting Elderly Victims
by shayaanby shayaanIn short Sze Man Yu Inos, 30, received a 71-month federal prison sentence for wire fraud targeting elderly women. The scheme involved …
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Regulation
22-Year-Old Gets 70 Months Prison for Role in $263M Crypto Laundering Scheme
by shayaanby shayaanA 22-year-old California man has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for laundering millions from a $263 million crypto fraud …
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Regulation
Mob boss John Gotti’s grandson is headed to prison for a $1.1 million Covid fraud and crypto scheme
by shayaanby shayaanCarmine Agnello, the mob boss John Gotti’s grandson, was sentenced to 15 months in prison for defrauding the U.S. government’s Covid relief …
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Mining
New bill threatens 50,000 unregistered miners in Russia with fines and prison sentence
by shayaanby shayaanThe Russian government is now seriously going after thousands of people and companies mining cryptocurrency without registration. A bill bringing fines and …
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Regulation
Prosecutors flag mail discrepancies in Sam Bankman-Fried’s retrial motion letter from prison
by shayaanby shayaanFederal prosecutors told a judge that a letter purportedly sent by Sam Bankman-Fried from prison was actually shipped via FedEx from somewhere …
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Regulation
FedEx Tracking Undercuts ‘Prison’ Letter Supporting SBF’s Retrial Motion
by shayaanby shayaanU.S. prosecutors challenged a letter submitted to Judge Lewis Kaplan on March 19 that claimed to come from convicted FTX founder Sam …