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Singapore Courts Slap Charges on Three Cases of Financial Crime
24.10.2019
Singapore has grown into one of the world’s most important financial hubs over the past decades, and at the same time, the city-state is also well known for being very tough on financial crimes. Within one single day, the courts in Singapore slapped charges on three separate cases of financial...
Alleged Las Vegas Scammer Charged for $11 Million Crypto Binary Options Ponzi
18.10.2019
A Las Vegas man is charged with raising at least $11 million from cryptocurrency investors he promised to trade binary options for, and make gains of up to 300%. According to the charges the money was sent from new clients to previous ones in a classic Ponzi scheme manner. Also Read: Binance to...
CFTC Unearths $11M Cryptocurrency Scam, Files Charges
17.10.2019
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) of the United States, has declared to file a civil prosecution action against Nevada headquartered Circle Society. CFTC announced yesterday that it was indicting Circle Society and its owner, David Gilbert Saffron, on account of “fraudulent...
US Charges Singaporean Miner Who Stole $5M Worth of Cloud Computing Power
10.10.2019
The United States prosecutors officially indict a man from Singapore for stealing Amazon Web Services’ cloud computing power to mine cryptocurrencies
Ex-Ethereum Advisor Nerayoff Loses Techstars Deal After Extortion Charges
8.10.2019
Well-known startup accelerator Techstars says that it was “necessary” to halt a joint program with Steven Nerayoff’s firm Alchemist
Former NiceHash CTO Arrested in Germany Over US Hacking Charges
2.10.2019
The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to extradite the alleged hacker over crimes he's already served time for in Slovenia
No Victim, No Crime: How the Darknet Drug War Is Ruining Young Lives
2.10.2019
There aren’t many areas of modern society unaffected by the draconian war on drugs, and non-violent crypto exchange is no exception. Two San Diego men in their twenties reportedly pleaded guilty on Monday to charges of money laundering conspiracy, for selling cannabis on the darknet...
CFTC Charges US Resident with $7M Bitcoin Fraud
1.10.2019
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission charges a United States resident with a $7 million Bitcoin-related fraud
SEC Charges Fantasy Market Founder with Fraudulent ICO Scheme
24.9.2019
SEC charges the founder of Fantasy Market with fraudulent ICO scheme
SEC Charges Adult Entertainment Token Platform With 2017 ICO Fraud
24.9.2019
The U.S. SEC has charged the CEO of an online adult entertainment marketplace with running a fraudulent initial coin offering scheme
SEC Charges Token Sale Platform For Illegal $14M Securities Offering
19.9.2019
The U.S. SEC has charged ICOBox with acting as an unregistered broker and conducting an illegal securities offering
DOJ Brings Extortion Charges Against Early Advisor to Ethereum, tZero
18.9.2019
U.S. law enforcement has charged an early supporter of the ethereum project and former advisor to Overstock’s tZero with extortion
SEC Charges Token Sale Platform ICOBox With Securities Violations
18.9.2019
The SEC has charged ICOBox and its founder with violating securities and registration requirements with its token sale and operations
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse Freshly Refutes XRP Manipulation Charges
13.9.2019
On the heels of consistent allegations about XRP price manipulation on Ripple and his CEO Brad Garlinghouse, he has once again denied them flatly. The Ripple is currently embroiled in controversies regarding the selling of unregistered securities. In a much-anticipated interview given to CNN’s...
SEC Settles Charges With Crypto Token Issuers Accused of Fraud
29.8.2019
The SEC settled charges with two individuals accused of selling unregistered securities with the Bitqy and BitqyM token sales
Microsoft Settles Bribery Charges in Hungary with $25 Million Fine to Federal Government
23.7.2019
When it comes to some of the biggest companies in the world and their quest to expand into new markets, then there is always a possibility of resorting to unfair means. It can especially crop up if a country is trying to expand into new countries and having very little idea about the ways...
Money Laundering Scandals Bring Court Charges and Record Job Cuts to Euro Banks
9.7.2019
The international financial establishment is known to express concern about the risks of money laundering when the crypto space is mentioned. A string of scandals indicates, however, that traditional banks are not only susceptible to the phenomenon but sometimes complicit, whether knowingly...
Bithumb Hit with Data Leak Charges, Denies Link to Hack
20.6.2019
South Korea’s prosecution authorities have indicted Bithumb, one of the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, accusing the platform of leaking sensitive financial data on around 31,000 of its customers.
However, the company claims that the leak – which prosecutors say occurred in 2017 – and...
US SEC Adds Fraud to List of Charges Against ‘Crypto’ Firm Longfin
5.6.2019
The SEC has filed charges of fraud against purported blockchain-related firm Longfin Corp
Firm That Saw Stock Boost After Crypto ‘Pivot’ Hit With New SEC Charges
5.6.2019
The SEC filed fresh fraud charges against Longfin Corp. on Wednesday, alleging the company falsified its accounting. Longfin's stock price jumped after it announced a crypto pivot in 2017