News with the tag "Crime"

The SEC hacker who pumped the Bitcoin price with a fake post gets 14 months behind bars

A dozen Americans and foreign nationals have been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) this week for engaging in an online racketeering conspiracy that saw $263 million worth of cryptocurrency netted in the crime scheme, as stated in a May 15 press release. Feds Say Fraudsters Swindled Mi...

French Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau agreed on a series of measures to tighten the security of crypto professionals at a Friday meeting following a number of kidnappings that have targeted industry figures in the country. Measures including strengthening collaboration with internal secur...

Video footage caught four masked men attempting to kidnap the daughter and grandson of crypto exchange Paymium CEO Pierre Noizat in Paris during broad daylight. According to a report by European media AFP, police sources have found video footage showing four armed men with their faces covered attack...

A violent kidnapping attempt involving the family of Pierre Noizat, CEO and co-founder of French crypto exchange Paymium, has shaken the crypto community and reignited concerns around the rising trend of in-person attacks on digital asset holders. On May 13, Noizat’s daughter and grandson were targe...

What began as a crypto event ended in a terrifying ordeal for one investor. In the Nevada desert last November, a crypto entrepreneur, fresh off hosting a blockchain event in downtown Las Vegas, saw kidnapping at gunpoint and lost $4 million in cryptocurrency and NFTs. According to police reports , ...

WSJ reports that China is eyeing potential assistance in cracking down on the fentanyl trade in North America as a possible pretext for starting China-U.S. trade negotiations. Fentanyl overdoses take the lives of dozens of thousands of people in the U.S. and Canada annually. China is a key player in...

German authorities shut down crypto exchange eXch, seizing 34 million euros ($38 million) in tokens and more than 8 terabytes of data in one of the country’s largest law-enforcement actions targeting suspected crypto laundering. The Frankfurt Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Federal Criminal Polic...

Frankfurt authorities have suspended operations for eXch and seized its crypto assets valued $38.2 million. The platform allegedly facilitated money laundering for major crypto heists including the Bybit and Multisig hacks. According to an official statement issued on May 9, the Frankfurt Prosecutor...

A United States resident has been sentenced to over 30 years in prison for sending cryptocurrency to support the Islamic State terrorist organization. Mohammed Azharuddin Chhipa, a 35-year-old from Springfield, Virginia, was handed a sentence of 30 years and four months by a federal judge on May 7. ...