Up to 127 years for CEO who laundered Mexican cartel funds with bitcoin
Fifty-one-year-old Martin Mizrahi used bitcoin to launder funds for Mexican cartels and hackers via his Las Vegas internet firm.
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Late Friends star Matthew Perry’s X account hacked by crypto scammers
The Matthew Perry X account was hacked to promote a scam tricking users into donating crypto to a fake charity bearing his name.
Cop allegedly stole 81 bitcoin from drug dealer’s Trezor wallet
William Wheatley allegedly stole 81 bitcoin now worth $4 million from the Trezor wallet of a suspected steroid dealer he was investigating.
German police seize 50,000 bitcoin in piracy website bust
German authorities focused on two men who allegedly ran “pirated copy portals” under the name Movie2K and used the profits to buy bitcoin.
Chinese takeaway worker laundered bitcoin from $6B scam, prosecutors
Jian Wen has been accused of laundering funds that were stolen from 128,000 Chinese investors and converted to bitcoin between 2014 and 2017.
Silk Road seller linked to 8,100 bitcoin seizure pleads guilty
The DEA seized 8,100 bitcoin from Silk Road vendor Banmeet Singh as part of the largest crypto and cash seizure in DEA history.
Andrew Tate may recover 21 seized bitcoin now worth 88% more
Andrew Tate has won an appeal, forcing a court to reassess $10M in assets seized last year... including 21 bitcoin that's now up 88%.
Charity worker says bitcoin scam forced him to steal $150K from veterans
Martin J. Svoboda II says he stole from the veterans charity after scammers threatened to post edited nudes unless he paid a bitcoin ransom.
Top Ukraine official’s $1.5M in USDT, BTC seized in embezzlement probe
The former chief of Ukraine's cyber security agency allegedly embezzled $1.7M in state funds and must hand over $1.5M in USDT and BTC.
Mumbai airport threatened with bombing in bitcoin blackmail plot
The would-be bomber was arrested after giving Mumbai's international airport 48 hours to hand over $1 million worth of bitcoin.