Crypto Crime News

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.

Kanye West recently revealed that he was offered $2 million to endorse a fraudulent meme coin using his name.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Nigeria has dismantled a major cryptocurrency fraud ring, arresting a large number of suspects involved in illicit activities.

After several months of imprisonment, Alexey Pertsev, a key developer behind Tornado Cash, is poised for release from custody on February 7, 2025.