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Money Laundering
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Latest Money Laundering stories
- Colombia Arrests Eight Sought by U.S. in Drug and Money Laundering Case
The attorney general’s office said one suspect’s financial activity had been tracked since 2018, with about $42 million in suspicious crypto transactions identified.
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- Italy Moves to Seize More Than €21 Million in Mafia-Linked Crypto Probe
The order covered cryptocurrency alongside cash, bank accounts, cars, boats, jewelry, luxury watches and money-counting machines.
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- Colombian Broker Gets 160 Months for Laundering $14.5M in Tether
He was also ordered to forfeit $14,751,846 and serve five years of supervised release.
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- Italy Targets 30 in Alleged $79 Million Mafia Crypto Laundering Case
The Milan investigation identified more than $128 million in false invoices and traced funds through European banks and cryptocurrency exchanges.
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- Italy Moves to Arrest 30 in €68 Million Crypto Laundering Probe
Investigators identified more than €110 million in allegedly false invoices. The operation extends to Spain and Switzerland.
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- Hok Seng Ling Returns £5.6 Million in UK Crypto Laundering Case
The confiscation order has been fully recovered, with £1,990 in interest. Most of the funds came from cryptocurrency seized when Ling was arrested.
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- Elmin Redzepagic Pleads Guilty in $1.16 Million Crypto Fraud Case
More than 10 people suffered losses after Redzepagic sent their money to an offshore gambling platform.
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- Poland Charges Nine in Money Laundering Case Tied to Crypto Scams
The alleged operation involved 337 million zlotys from online scams between February 2025 and July 2026.
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- India’s Enforcement Directorate Identifies Crypto Route in Betting Probe
Searches at 20 premises in five cities focused on two betting platforms. Investigators allege proceeds moved abroad through crypto conversion, trade remittances and cash withdrawals.
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- Thai Police Arrest Chinese Man Sought Over Money-Laundering Allegations
Thai police linked the network to more than 500 million yuan in transactions and separately alleged he handled crypto and foreign-exchange activity through more than 133 accounts.
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- Forensic Accountant Says $11.53 Million Went to Pleterski’s Personal Spending
Testimony also put payments to investors at $11.39 million and transfers to other forex and crypto platforms at about $80,000.
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- UK FCA Arrests Three in Probe of Suspected Insider Dealing
More than 100 FCA and National Crime Agency staff searched five homes in London and Manchester, seizing phones, laptops and tablets.
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- Two U.K. Financial Advisers Plead Guilty in £2 Million Fraud Case
Kerry Nelson and Jacqueline Stephens admitted fraud charges involving four clients from Jan. 2019 to Jan. 2023. Nelson also admitted an additional money-laundering offense.
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- Bank of America Faces More Than $1.2 Billion in Penalties
Treasury said the bank failed to report more than $5 billion in suspicious transactions and violated anti-money-laundering and sanctions rules.
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- UK Freezes London Mansion and Watches Linked to Prince Group Executive
The assets are tied to Li Tian, the finance chief of Cambodia-based Prince Group, in a cross-border fraud and money-laundering case.
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- Bybit Theft Shows Crypto Moves Faster Than It Converts to Fiat
North Korean actors dispersed about $1.5 billion across thousands of addresses after the Feb. 21, 2025, theft, complicating efforts to freeze or recover the assets.
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- Binance Customer With Iran Links Faced U.S. and Swiss Scrutiny
The exchange blocked the customer’s accounts in late 2025 and removed the final account in May 2026 amid broader sanctions concerns.
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- American Express National Bank Agrees to $350 Million OCC AML Penalty
The OCC found the bank processed approximately $13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering activity between June 2014 and May 2025.
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- Jury Convicts Uranium Finance Hacker in $54.7 Million Theft
Jonathan Spalletta was found guilty of computer fraud and money laundering after two 2021 attacks on the decentralized exchange. The laundering count carries up to 20 years in prison.
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- Israeli Crypto Trader Held Over Alleged Tax-Evasion Investigation
Adiel Miyost was detained after authorities alleged he failed to report cryptocurrency trading activity and related income. The suspected trading involved tens of millions of dollars.
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- Brazil Probes Six Fintechs as Police Find Crypto Mining Setup
Police found about 30 computers in Rio’s Complexo do Lins. Officials described 26 billion reais in atypical transactions involving six fintechs from 2022 through 2025.
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- China, Hong Kong Police Dismantle Crypto-Linked Money Network
More than 170 suspects were detained, while authorities froze or seized assets worth millions of dollars in a cross-border operation.
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- Aiden Pleterski Faces Oct. 5 Trial Over Alleged $30 Million Fraud
Canadian authorities charged Pleterski with fraud and money laundering in May 2024 over alleged investment claims made between 2021 and 2022.
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- Federal Prosecutors Charge Vietnamese National in $16M Crypto Scheme
Trung Nguyen Van faces two money-laundering counts after wallets linked to him allegedly received $53.3 million tied to wire-fraud schemes.
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- Taiwan Prosecutors Indict 30 Over NT$20.1 Billion USDT Network
The operation allegedly used two platforms to process yuan-to-USDT conversions, with Taiwan serving as a customer-service and identity-verification hub.
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- Brooklyn Man Sentenced Up to 12 Years for $15.94 Million Crypto Theft
Ronald Spektor pleaded guilty to 31 charges after impersonating Coinbase support and targeting about 100 U.S. users over roughly a year.
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- DOJ Moves to Seize $25 Million in Crypto Tied to Global Investment Scam Networks
The U.S. Department of Justice initiated forfeiture proceedings targeting over $25 million in cryptocurrency linked to international investment scams as part of a broader crackdown on global fraud and laundering netwo…
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