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Cryptocurrency Crime

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Ireland Seizes Third 500 BTC From Drug Dealer’s Long-Lost Bitcoin Stash

Europol’s decryption support enabled the Criminal Assets Bureau to move recovered coins into institutional custody for legal and forensic processing.

France Reports 77 Crypto-Linked Kidnappings in First Half of 2026

Two Arrested in Georgia as Authorities Dismantle AudiA6 Crypto‑Laundering Network

Bipartisan Bill Would Create Federal Cryptocurrency Theft Task Force

Saif Faiq Pleads Guilty in Bitcoin-Linked Kidnapping Plot

Investigators Probe Abduction of Nancy Guthrie Near Tucson

South Korea Charges Five Over CATFI DEX Rug Pull

Brazil Seizes About 1,400 Bitcoin Mining Rigs in São Paulo Raid

Gujarat Police Dismantle Rs 226-Crore Crypto Network With Suspected Terror Links

Tether, Tron and TRM Labs’ Crime Unit Says It Has Frozen $450 Million in Illicit Crypto

Elliptic Raises $120 Million Series D to Scale AI Crypto Compliance

New Report Finds North Korea Drove 60% of 2025 Crypto Theft, Taking About $2 Billion

FBI Director Kash Patel Says AI Now Central to Bureau Operations

ED Arrests 'Sriki' and Two Others in Crypto Laundering Case

NSW Police Seize 52.3 Bitcoin in Darknet Probe, Charge Two

Samourai Wallet Co-Founder Seeks Donations After $2 Million Legal Debt

France Charges 88 in Nationwide Crackdown on Violent Crypto ‘Wrench Attacks’

Evan Tangeman Sentenced to 70 Months for Laundering Stolen Crypto in RICO Case

Evan Tangeman Sentenced to 70 Months in $263 Million Crypto Theft Case

France Consolidates Crypto-Linked Kidnapping Probes as Cases Reach 135 Since 2023