Catenaa, Thursday, November 14, 2024-Alameda Research, the trading affiliate of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has filed a lawsuit against Aleksandr Ivanov, the founder of Waves, aiming to recover $90 million in assets deposited with Vires.Finance, a liquidity platform on the Waves blockchain. This action is part of a series of more than 20 lawsuits recently […]
Catenaa, Friday, November 15, 2024-Australia’s corporate watchdog, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), has charged Grant Colthup, the former CEO of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Mine Digital, with fraud in connection to a 2022 transaction worth A$2.2 million ($1.46 million). ASIC alleges that Colthup misappropriated the funds after a customer paid A$2.2 million to […]
SEATTLE, April 30, 2024- Changpeng Zhao, the former CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Binance, was sentenced to four months in prison, on Tuesday (April 30) after pleading guilty to federal charges of violating anti-money laundering laws. The charges stemmed from a Department of Justice investigation that found Binance failed to implement adequate procedures to prevent money […]
Catenaa, Monday, November 11, 2024-The US Department of Justice (DOJ) announced Friday the sentencing of Roman Sterlingov, the operator of Bitcoin Fog, the darknet’s longest-running Bitcoin mixing service. Sterlingov, a dual Russian-Swedish national, received a prison term of 12 years and six months for laundering criminal proceeds through the BTC mixing service from 2011 to […]
London, UK, October 10, 2023: The value of illicit crypto laundered through cross-chain criminal activities has surged to a record-breaking $7 billion, according to a newly released report by blockchain analytics and risk management firm Elliptic. The report, titled State of Cross-Chain Crime Report by Elliptic, was released on October 4, 2023. The report found […]
Catenaa, Sunday, December 22, 2024-Europol announced a major success in combating international drug trafficking, revealing the seizure of $26.23 million in cryptocurrencies and the arrest of nine suspects linked to an underground financial network. Authorities from six countries collaborated to dismantle the operation, which used cryptocurrency to launder proceeds from large-scale cocaine trafficking and other […]
Moscow, Thursday, September 26, 2024- Authorities in Dagestan, Russia, have uncovered illegal subterranean crypto mining farms stealing power from the national grid, exacerbating the region’s ongoing energy issues. According to TASS and a statement from Dagestan’s Cabinet of Ministers, police and energy officials raided a clandestine mining facility in Makhachkala, the republic’s capital. Seventeen crypto […]