A Kazakh court has sentenced three cryptocurrency exchange operators to prison terms. According to an official report by the Kazakh government-run Financial Supervisory Agency (AFM), the court sentenced the three to between 2.5 and 3.5 years in prison, and the bailiffs confiscated their assets worth $750,000.
A U.S. federal judge has sentenced HDR Global Trading Limited, also known as the parent company of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX, to two years of non-supervised probation and a $100 million fine. On January 15, at a hearing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, Judge John Koeltl ruled against BitMEX. About six months ago, the cryptocurrency exchange admitted to violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
On January 10, local time on January 10, the New York State Superior Court judge ruled in the case of President-elect Trump's "hush money", ruling that Trump was guilty of 34 counts in the case, but in view of the important stage of the presidential power transition process, he was released unconditionally without any punishment.
A US court has sentenced Chirag Tomar, a 31-year-old Indian man who stole more than $20 million by impersonating the Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange site, to five years in prison and two years of supervised release. Tomar has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and will serve time in federal prison.
Russia has sentenced a former chief investigator, Marat Tambiyev, to 16 years in prison after he was found to have accepted 1,032 BTC bribes, now worth $65 million, from a group of hackers. Last year, Tambiyev was accused of accepting BTC bribes from people associated with the "Infraud Organization", a hacking group being investigated by Russia's Investigative Committee. As part of the agreement, Tambiyev agreed not to confiscate the group's illegally obtained bitcoins. He subsequently received ...
Australian prosecutors are advocating a jail term for a Crypto com user who accidentally received a mistaken refund of nearly $7 million and spent most of it before the trading platform discovered an internal error three years ago. In May 2021, Cryptocom sent $6.86 million (10.47 million AUD) to Australian couple Thevamanogari Manivel and Jatinder Singh instead of $1.
On July 11, Bill Hwang, founder of Archegos Asset Management, was criminally charged for his company's 2021 bankruptcy. A two-month trial ended on Wednesday with the guilty verdicts of Bill Hwang and co-defendant Patrick Halligan, the chief financial officer. Bill Hwang, 60, pleaded not guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud, three counts of fraud and seven counts of market manipulation, but was convicted on 10 of the 11 counts. Now, each conviction carries a maximum sentence of 20 years i...