News with the tag "Bribe"

Rostin Behnam exits the US CFTC and calls for stronger regulation, Russia confiscates $10 million in Bitcoin and the IMF advises Kenya on crypto regulations.

The Bitcoin seized from former ICRF employee Marat Tambiev will be turned into Russian state revenue from a hardware crypto wallet.

Amrita Srivastava, who worked at Binance from 2022 to 2023, alleged reporting a bribe at the crypto exchange resulted in her dismissal.

Prosecutors petitioned a New York federal court to seize crypto they alleged is linked to bribes paid to Chinese officials by Sam Bankman-Fried.

Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), who once denounced Bitcoin (BTC) as an “ideal choice for criminals,” was found guilty of accepting bribes in gold and fiat currency during his corruption trial. In a press release shared by the Department of Justice Tuesday, Attorney Damian Williams remarked, “This cas...

A Chinese man will reportedly spend the rest of his life in prison after being caught hiding illicit crypto mining activities and accepting bribes. According to a new report by the South China Morning Post, former senior provincial official Xiao Yi has been handed a life sentence for providing suppo...

A criminal investigator in Moscow extorted thousands of bitcoin from the crypto hackers he arrested. Now, these coins are moving onto exchanges, Crystal Blockchain found.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and federal prosecutors in New York have opted to temporarily suspend five charges against the beleaguered FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). Nevertheless, these five charges have been “severed” and deferred until 2024, potentially leaving SBF’s legal team t...

An investigator working in Moscow has been caught with a record-breaking bribe paid by a hacking group in cryptocurrency. According to a Russian press report, the corrupt official accepted millions of dollars’ worth of bitcoin and saved the digital money for his retirement years. Investigator Finds ...

In a startling turn of events, a former executive at Coinone, one of South Korea's top cryptocurrency exchanges, has admitted to receiving bribes in return for listing specific cryptocurrencies on the platform.