Two Chinese nationals were charged by the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) with laundering over $100 million worth of cryptocurrency that was previously hacked by North Korean fraudsters, the DOJ said on Tuesday (March 3). According to the two-count indictment filed in federal court in Washington,...
The British public relations representative for Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former prime minister, has been charged in absentia in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, according to a report from Financial Times. Paul Stadlen is accused of laundering about $3.5 million of illicit funds and putting...
The extradition of a Russian man accused of laundering billions of dollars in Bitcoin is being made possible thanks to a Greek Supreme Court ruling. According to a report in Reuters, Alexander Vinnik, the accused mastermind behind a $4 billion Bitcoin laundering network, is among...
May 19, 2020
Payments processing giant First Data Merchant Services and one of its executives will pay $40.3 million to settle allegations that they laundered credit card transactions for scams targeting hundreds of thousands of consumers, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said on Tuesday (May 19). The FTC alleged that First Data ignored repeated warnings from employees, lenders […]
March 03, 2020
Two Chinese nationals were charged by the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) with laundering over $100 million worth of cryptocurrency that was previously hacked by North Korean fraudsters, the DOJ said...
February 21, 2019
The British public relations representative for Najib Razak, Malaysia’s former prime minister, has been charged in absentia in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, according to a report from Financial...
October 05, 2017
The extradition of a Russian man accused of laundering billions of dollars in Bitcoin is being made possible thanks to a Greek Supreme Court ruling. According to a report in...
