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The FDIC was instructed to comply fully with a court order and make “more thoughtful redactions” to pause letters requested by crypto exchange Coinbase.
Russian crypto exchange CEO was detained by Polish police due to fraud and money laundering; the perpetrator will be extradited to the United States. Police in Poland have arrested Dmitriv Vasiliev because of the breaking of Polish privacy laws. This…
Alex Mashinsky, the former CEO of the defunct Celsius Network, has failed to get two fraud charges dismissed from his indictment. A federal judge in New York ruled against Mashinsky’s motion, which alleged he manipulated the price of Celsius’s cryptocurrency,…
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Federal law enforcements were able to recover $8.3 million investors lost in a crypto embezzlement case involving the CEO of a Kansas bank. According to an Associated Press report, the Federal Bureau of Investigation managed to recover the lost funds…
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A German man, Horst Jicha, is now a fugitive after skipping a $150 million cryptocurrency fraud hearing in New York. Jicha, 64, was under house arrest and out on a $5 million bond, but authorities suspect he tampered with his…
Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, has agreed to turn over all her remaining assets to FTX debtors to settle a lawsuit filed against her by the bankruptcy estate. In an Oct. 7 filing, the document states that FTX…
District Judge Katherine Polk Failla ruled in favor of a trial against Tornado Cash and Roman Storm, causing an outcry from the crypto community. Judge Failla denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss, asserting that the possible uses of code were…
The U.S. government is reportedly ramping up diplomatic efforts to secure the release of Tigran Gambaryan, a Binance employee detained in Nigeria since February 2024. Members of the U.S. government have reportedly held private conversations advocating for Gambaryan’s release with…
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A Nigerian high court heard arguments for and against the release of an imprisoned Binance employee days after CEO Richard Teng encouraged U.S. intervention. The trial of Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan resumed in Abuja on Sept. 2 as Nigerian prosecutors…
A crypto investor who received over $10 million instead of a $100 deposit is facing jail time after Crypto.com discovered the error. In May 2021, Crypto.com user Jatinder Singh attempted to deposit $100 into his exchange account using a bank…
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Ethereum
Alexey Pertsev has been sentenced to 64 months in prison over his involvement in developing the Ethereum privacy tool Tornado Cash.
Former FTX executive Ryan Salame will be issued a prison sentence on May 28 following his guilty plea last September.
The court has postponed the hearing for a Binance official detained in Nigeria on allegations of tax evasion to April 19.
The ex-CEO of Heartland Tri-State Bank in Kansas has been indicted for allegedly diverting $47.1 million from the bank's reserves into cryptocurrency investments.
The Coinbase vs. SEC case takes center stage as the leading exchange is set to argue why its traded tokens are not unregistered securities.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has requested a judge, rather than a jury, to determine whether certain cryptocurrencies involved in the Terraform Labs case are classified as securities.