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Irish police has seized €6.5 million ($7.1 million) in cryptocurrency from three individuals arrested in Dublin for suspected involvement in dark web crimes and money laundering.
A major transfer of 14,500 ETH, worth about $35.2 million, has been traced to Tornado Cash, a crypto mixing platform, linked to the Nomad Bridge hack of August 2022.
WazirX, India’s leading cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that it will reverse all user account transactions following a cyber attack on July 18, 2024.
London’s High Court has issued a global freeze on assets tied to individuals involved in the OneCoin scam, including Ruja Ignatova, known as the ‘Cryptoqueen’.
São Paulo’s Civil Police have uncovered and dismantled a major money laundering operation linked to the drug cartel First Capital Command (PCC).
The defunct crypto exchange FTX and trading company Alameda Research have been ordered to pay $12.7 billion to creditors, according to a recent ruling by U.S. District Judge Peter Castell in New York.
Ripple was penalized with a fine of only $125 million for their institutional sales, while cryptocurrency exchange transactions were declared lawful.