Crime

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has confirmed that the former FTX Executives including Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, and Alameda Research CEO Carolien Ellison will be barred from serving in corporate leadership roles for the next decade.

Jarett Dunn, the Pump.fun developer who stole an estimated $2 million worth of Solana from his then employee, which is later donated to thousands of random addresses, was sentenced to six years in prison by a London judge.

Researchers from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOG) have accused the Central African Republic's government of exploiting ordinary citizens to push for cryptocurrency in order to further its own political agenda and support criminal activities.

Hong Kong Prosecutors have asked for more time to organize the sprawling evidence collected during the two-year investigation.

Spanish law enforcement has arrested five people linked to a brutal kidnapping and murder in Málaga earlier this year, believed to be part of a “wrench attack”—a violent tactic used to force victims to hand over access to their cryptocurrency wallets. Authorities in Denmark have also charged four additional suspects connected to the case.

Hollywood director Carl Rinsch has been convicted in U.S. federal court after prosecutors showed he diverted $11 million in Netflix production funding into cryptocurrency trading, using money intended for a sci-fi series to fuel speculative bets and personal spending.

A 21-year-old Ukrainian student in Vienna was tortured and set on fire after attackers forced him to give passwords to his cryptocurrency wallets, which they emptied before his death. Two suspects fled to Ukraine with the stolen crypto and were arrested three days later, highlighting the rising risk of violent attacks on crypto holders.

A 21-year-old unemployed Russian man, misguided that cryptocurrency was something that was stored in a safety vault just like any other fiat or valuables, broke into local cryptocurrency exchanges and attempted to steal the digital assets using brute force.

A Canadian family in British Columbia has survived a horrific 13-hour terror attack, making their case one of the country's most extreme crypto-related "wrench attacks".

A man posing as a delivery worker forced his way into a home and made the resident hand over access to a crypto wallet, stealing millions. The attack shows a rise in violent “wrench attacks” targeting crypto holders in the real world.