Half of the husband-and-wife duo that has been charged by American prosecutors with attempting to launder a monster bitcoin (BTC) allegedly raided from the crypto exchange Bitfinex in a 2016 hack is talking to the authorities about a possible “plea deal.” CNBC reported that a federal prosecutor told a court on Monday that he…
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In the aftermath of the Western sanctions on Russia due to its invasion of Ukraine, crypto exchanges could be soon required to freeze the accounts of their Russian customers, according to Kraken CEO Jesse Powell. He was replying to a recent request put forward by Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister and Digital Transformation Minister Mykhailo…
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Timothy McKimmy, the US man who says he had lost his non-fungible token (NFT) due to an issue related to OpenSea’s user interface (UI) design, has filed a lawsuit against the NFT marketplace, alleging that the platform was aware of the issue but did not “timely put adequate safety measures in place.”… Read More:…
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Meta’s Facebook has filed legal documents in rejection of an action brought by the Australian billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest, the nation’s richest man. The latter claims the social media platform should be held liable for “reputation-damaging” crypto scam ads that made use of images of him…. Read More: Facebook Faces Legal Fight with Australian…
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A judge in Washington D.C., USA, denied bail to Ilya Lichtenstein while releasing his wife, Heather Morgan, from detention on bail. The duo was previously granted bail by a New York judge for an alleged conspiracy to launder USD 4.5bn worth of bitcoin (BTC) stolen from the 2016 hack of the major crypto exchange…
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As part of its probe into a potential value-added tax (VAT) fraud, UK tax authority Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HRMC) has confiscated three non-fungible tokens (NFTs) in what represents the first seizure of such assets by a British government institution. On HMRC’s initiative, three persons accused of attempting to defraud the agency of…
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