On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that BitMEX has pleaded guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA). According to newly published court documents, the exchange failed…
Paxful’s co-founder and former chief technology officer (CTO), Artur Schaback, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to deliberately fail in establishing, developing, implementing, and maintaining a compliant AML program as required by…
Juan Tacuri, 46, of Greenacres, Florida, a senior promoter behind the Forcount cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud in the Southern District of New…
In a Brooklyn federal court on Thursday, crypto personality Thomas John Sfraga, also known as “TJ Stone”, pleaded guilty to wire fraud charges for defrauding over a dozen victims out…
A prominent British narcotics trafficker involved in the United States Drug Enforcement Agency’s (DEA) largest-ever Bitcoin (BTC) seizure has admitted to operating an extensive network of illicit online marketplaces, as…
In a significant development, billionaire Joe Lewis, formerly associated with bankrupt crypto exchange FTX and known for owning a Premier League football club, has pleaded guilty to 19 fraud charges…
An unidentified decentralized crypto exchange and Nirvana Financial, a decentralized financial yield protocol, were both compromised in a hacking incident, which a software engineer admitted to. A maximum five-year prison…
A former senior security engineer, Shakeeb Ahmed, pled guilty to the hacking incident on the decentralized finance yield protocol, Nirvana Finance, along with another unnamed decentralized exchange (DEX). Ahmed will…
Anatoly Legkodymov, the co-founder of virtual currency exchange Bitzlato, pleaded guilty to a criminal charge in the US. Legkodymov was arrested in January and was accused of processing about $700…
According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York, Anatoly Legkodymov, the co-founder of Bitzlato, a Hong Kong-registered virtual currency exchange, has entered a guilty plea…
