Tag Archives: Justice Department

Do Kwon faces multiple fraud-related and civil allegations from US federal prosecutors. Eight months after his arrest, a court in Montenegro has finally ordered the extradition of Terra founder Do Kwon. Kwon was arrested in Podgorica, the capital city of Montenegro in March, after he was caught trying to flee to Dubai via private jet, and with falsified documents. At the time, Kwon had a fake Costa Rican passport on him. Although a final decision is yet to be made on his final destination,...

A former Coinbase employee and two of his comrades have been arrested by the Department of Justice (DOJ) following reports that the employee had conducted insider trading and passed along confidential information to his cohorts about which coins would be listed on the exchange in the future. A Man Who Worked with Coinbase Has Been Arrested The former employee – a man named Ishan Wahi – was part of the team at Coinbase that listed assets on the trading platform. The data...

The Justice Department has arrested a couple in New York for their alleged participation in a crypto scam that occurred roughly six years ago. Ilya Lichtenstein – age 34 – and his wife Heather Morgan, age 31, have been charged with laundering funds garnered through a massive $3.6 billion cryptocurrency hack that targeted popular digital currency exchange Bitfinex in 2016. The Crypto Space Still Sees Its Fair Share of Hacks Cryptocurrency hacks and thievery in the world...

Law enforcement in the U.S. has taken back roughly $2.3 million in crypto funds that have been garnered through ransomware attacks. According to legal documents, the crypto was being held by a Russian man named Aleksandr Sikerin, who is believed to be living in St. Petersburg. Ransomware Is Getting Bad Sikerin is slated to be part of a notorious hacking group known as REvil. The organization has cost businesses throughout the world millions of dollars in crypto funds,...

The United States Justice Department has seized more than $6 million in digital currency funds that were allegedly garnered through ransomware attacks. The Justice Department Is Moving Fast The move comes after the Justice Department recently issued new sanctions against both countries and various global exchanges that had potentially been part of collecting ransomware funds and laundering the money. Several arrests of alleged hackers have also taken place as the Justice...

The U.S. Justice Department is establishing a new division that will look specifically into cryptocurrency crimes such as money laundering and theft. The Justice Department Seeks to Have a Hand in Regulation The idea of regulating the crypto space has been on the tables of many global leaders over the past several years. The trouble is that very few of these leaders have ever gotten around to doing something, which has ultimately proven to be both bad and good at the...