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Crypto crime is relatively common within the space, and the latest instigator – a 35-year-old woman in the United Kingdom who remains unnamed at the time of writing – has been caught with roughly 115,000 pounds of illegally garnered bitcoin in her possession.Bitcoin Is at the Center of a Lot of CrimeThe news comes by way of the Met’s Proactive Money Laundering Team. Detectives first opened an investigation into the woman’s financial dealings after she applied for several “bounce back loans,”...

A man in New York City has been charged with laundering money through bitcoin. 28-year-old Vitalii Antonenko was arrested in March last year while arriving from the Ukraine to New York’s JFK airport after federal agents linked two bitcoin wallets to him that had been used to launder as much as $94 million in digital funds.Antonenko Will Face Criminal ChargesCrypto crime is no laughing matter. There are many cases seeping their way into the digital finance industry, and the methods used for...