Crypto Crime News

Dan Morehead, founder and managing partner of Pantera Capital, is under investigation for possible violations of U.S. tax laws after relocating to Puerto Rico, a territory known for its tax advantages.

The FBI is ramping up efforts to combat a rising cryptocurrency scam known as “pig butchering,” where fraudsters build trust with victims before tricking them into fake investments.

A chilling kidnapping case has emerged in Chicago, where six men allegedly took a family and their nanny hostage, demanding a staggering $15 million in cryptocurrency as ransom.

A Turkish court has sentenced Mehmet Aydin, the creator of the fraudulent mobile game Çiftlik Bank, to over 45,000 years in prison after orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme.

A man from Alabama has admitted to hacking the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) X account in a scheme that led to a false Bitcoin ETF approval announcement.

A former senior official in Beijing’s financial sector has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being found guilty of corruption and laundering money through Bitcoin transactions.

Braden John Karony, ex-CEO of SafeMoon, has filed a request to delay his upcoming trial, hoping that shifting U.S. regulations under the Trump administration might help dismiss some of the charges against him.