News with the tag "Prosecutors"

Ilya Lichtenstein, who stole 120,000 Bitcoin in a 2016 hack on the Bitfinex, should receive a reduced sentence of five-years in prison, prosecutors say.

Telegram’s founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, is still in hot water in France, facing multiple criminal charges linked to activities on his messaging platform. The French court reportedly set his bail at €5 million, and he’s now prohibited from leaving the country. French Authorities Charge Telegram CEO ...

French prosecutors have announced that an investigative judge extended the police custody of Pavel Durov, CEO of Telegram, on Monday evening for up to 48 hours. After that, French authorities must either release or charge him. Durov was detained on Saturday at Le Bourget airport amid a judicial inve...

US prosecutors have made notable progress in two separate cases involving the notorious "pig butchering" schemes. The post US Prosecutors Crack Down on Crypto Pig Butchering Scams, Jail Former Bank CEO appeared first on TheCoinrise.com .

A group of 108 former federal prosecutors and agents have signed a public letter to the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the State Department to “step up” its efforts to secure Binance compliance head Tigran Gambaryan’s release from a Nigerian prison, Axios reported Thursday evening. The ...

According to reports, federal prosecutors in the United States are conducting an investigation into Block, Inc., a fintech company owned by Jack Dorsey. This investigation comes after documents allegedly exposing persistent and extensive compliance violations at the firm’s payment subsidiaries, Squa...

Prosecutors argued SafeMoon CEO Braden John Karony poses a flight risk given his alleged access to funds and overseas connections.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s legal team claimed last week that the FTX founder received assurances from lawyers his actions were lawful. However, federal prosecutors are now contesting the validity of Bankman-Fried’s defense strategy ahead of trial. Bankman-Fried’s Legal Defense in Question After DOJ Objecti...

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion on Monday seeking to bar all seven of Sam Bankman-Fried’s proposed expert witnesses from testifying in the former FTX CEO’s upcoming fraud trial. Federal prosecutors cited issues with the witnesses’ reliability and accused them of improperly offering opi...

Ahead of FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s October trial, government prosecutors have laid out their requests for how the jury should be directed.