U.S. arrests couple for allegedly laundering $4.5 bln in crypto…
By Sarah N. Lynch and Raphael Satter WASHINGTON, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The FBI arrested a husband and wife on Tuesday morning, alleging they conspired to launder cryptocurrency stolen from the 2016 hack o ...
One-third of the people reading this are thieves
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> At least, that's what a . Why? Because 36.4% of the 1.66 million ...
First Silk Road. Now AlphaBay. What’s next for the dark web?
id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body" data-component="trackCWV"> A government shutdown of dark web marketplaces AlphaBay and H ...
Germany sees a rise in far-right crime
has announced a spike in far-right and warned that political extremists are 'the biggest threat to our country.'The interior ministry reported another annual increase in anti-Semitic crimes, up by 15 ...
Cross-border drug trafficking cases nearly doubled in four years…
THE HAGUE, April 19 (Reuters) - The number of cross-border drug trafficking cases referred to the European agency for prosecutorial cooperation nearly doubled in four years to 562 in 2020, partly driv ...
German police take down one of the world's biggest child porn sites
German police have taken down one of the world's largest child porn sites with over 400,000 members and dark market link arrested four people accused of running it.The site, known as BOYSTOWN and acc ...
Self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and husband granted bail
The self-proclaimed 'Crocodile of Wall Street' and her husband have been granted bail set at $3million and $5million respectively after being arrested for allegedly laundering $4.5billion in stolen i ...
Crypto crime hit record $14 billion in 2021, research shows
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Jan 6 (Reuters) - Crime involving cryptocurrencies hit an all-time high of $14 billion last year, blockchain researcher Chainalysis said on Thursday, a record that comes as regul ...
Just 270 crypto addresses laundered $1.3 bln in dirty funds last…
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Criminals are using a small group of cryptocurrency brokers and services to launder hundreds of millions of dollars of dirty virtual money, research shared wit ...
Darknet crypto kingpin JokerStash retires after illicit $1 billion…
By Tom Wilson LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The kingpin or kingpins of the world's biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurre ...