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President of Payment Processing Firm Linked to Bitfinex-Tether Fiasco Arrested by Polish Authorities

October 25, 2019 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins

Polish news outlet wPolityce reported on October 24, 2019, that Ivan Manuel Molina Lee, the CEO of the controversial Panama-based payments processor Crypto Capital was arrested by the Polish authorities on suspicion of money laundering and involvement with an international drug cartel. More than Meets the Eye? Crypto Capital, a...

Taiwanese Authorities Charge Seven Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Organizers

January 21, 2019 by Ogwu Osaemezu Emmanuel at Bitcoin, Crime, News

The Taiwanese authorities have officially pressed charges against the seven fraudsters who were arrested in June last year for allegedly running a bitcoin-powered Ponzi scheme, reported local news source Focus Taiwan on January 18, 2019. Multiple Banking Laws Violated Per sources close to the matter, the Taichung District Prosecutors Office...

U.S. Prosecutors Take Down $722 Million Ponzi Scheme

China: Man Sentenced to Prison for Stealing Railway Electricity to Mine Bitcoin

October 9, 2018 by Aisshwarya Tiwari at Altcoins, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Exchange, News, Platform, Tech

Although the Chinese regulatory bodies have maintained their distance from cryptocurrencies, it has not deterred the people in the country from partaking in the promising crypto mining industry – as a Chinese man was recently sentenced to 3.5 years in prison for stealing power from a train station to mine...