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U.S. Sentences 31-Year-Old to 10 Years for Laundering $4.5M in Email Scams
2024-05-29 11:50

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has sentenced a 31-year-old to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5 million through business email compromise (BEC) schemes and romance scams....

Laundering cash from healthcare, romance scams lands US man in prison for a decade
2024-05-22 18:00

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Chinese Nationals Arrested for Laundering $73 Million in Pig Butchering Crypto Scam
2024-05-19 09:46

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged two arrested Chinese nationals for allegedly orchestrating a pig butchering scam that laundered at least $73 million from victims through shell...

US arrests suspects behind $73M ‘pig butchering’ laundering scheme
2024-05-17 15:57

The U.S. Department of Justice charged two suspects for allegedly leading a crime ring that laundered at least $73 million from cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as "Pig butchering." In pig butchering scams, criminals approach targets using various messaging apps, dating platforms, or social media platforms to build trust and introduce them to investment schemes that help them drain the victims' cryptocurrency wallets.

Tornado Cash cryptomixer dev gets 64 months for laundering $2 billion
2024-05-15 13:02

Alexey Pertsev, one of the main developers of the Tornado Cash cryptocurrency tumbler has been sentenced to 64 months in prison for his part in helping launder more than $2 billion worth of...

Dutch Court Sentences Tornado Cash Co-Founder to 5 Years in Prison for Money Laundering
2024-05-15 08:28

A Dutch court on Tuesday sentenced one of the co-founders of the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash cryptocurrency mixer service to 5 years and 4 months in prison. While the name of the...

Russian Operator of BTC-e Crypto Exchange Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering
2024-05-07 09:32

A Russian operator of a now-dismantled BTC-e cryptocurrency exchange has pleaded guilty to money laundering charges from 2011 to 2017. Alexander Vinnik, 44, was charged in January 2017 and taken...

Bitcoin Forensic Analysis Uncovers Money Laundering Clusters and Criminal Proceeds
2024-05-01 14:25

A forensic analysis of a graph dataset containing transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain has revealed clusters associated with illicit activity and money laundering, including detecting criminal...

US charges Samourai cryptomixer founders for laundering $100 million
2024-04-24 20:55

Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill have been charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for laundering more than $100 million from various criminal enterprises through Samourai, a cryptocurrency mixer service they ran for nearly a decade. In addition to crypto mixing services, Samourai also offered a service called "Ricochet," which allowed users to send cryptocurrency using additional and unnecessary intermediate transactions to thwart law enforcement and crypto exchange efforts to track funds sourced from criminal activity.

Six banks share customer info to help Singapore fight money laundering
2024-04-02 00:59

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