Singapore State Firm Announces Biggest FTX-Related Loss As SBF Remains At Large

Singapore State Investment Firm to Lose $275 Million The much-publicized FTX collapse painted a clear picture of what a financial contagion looks like. This is after several interlinked companies in the crypto space also went down with liquidity issues as…

FBI In Pursuit Of Sam Bankman-Fried As FTX Debacle Heats Up

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried may be extradited to the United States for questioning, according to reports from three persons with knowledge of the situation, according to Bloomberg News on Tuesday. Fears over the future of the cryptocurrency business have been…

INTERPOL unveils the first-ever Metaverse for law enforcement worldwide

The International Criminal Police Organization, more popularly known as the INTERPOL, unveiled the first-ever Metaverse for law enforcement worldwide. This was made known in the 90th Interpol General Assembly in New Delhi, India. The INTERPOL Metaverse allows registered users to…

Forth Arrest made as probe into India’s Money Trade Coin Scam, Intensifies

Indian police have reportedly arrested an associate of a group that’s accused of conducting a crypto scam involving 5 billion rupees which is equivalent to $71.6 million. This is according to an Indian English-language local publication known as the Indian…

Australian Authorities Freeze Assets Belonging to former Bit-connect Director, John Bigatton

The Australian securities and investments commission (ASIC), which is that country’s version of America’s Securities and Exchange Commission, has executed an asset freeze on Bitconnect’s John Bigatton. Bigatton who is a director and shareholder at Bitconnect has also been barred…

Sim Swapping Becomes the highest Concern of Anti-cybercrime Authorities

In the fight against crypto fraud, police in the United States consider “Sim swapping” top of their list of priorities. This is according to security news publication KrebsonSecurity. Santa Barbara police sergeant and supervisor of the REACT task force, Samy…

The US state forfeits $700,000 worth of crypto from dark web dealer “Oxymonster”

36 Year old Gal Vallerius as known as “Oxymonster” in the dark webs has been handed a 20-year prison sentence by US District Judge Robert Scola. Gal was handed this sentence after being involved heavily in the dark web drug…

Financial Action Task Force: Global cryptocurrency regulation framework to be out by June 2019

  The global watchdog for money laundering has announced that it will start publishing its first batch of cryptocurrency regulations by June next year. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said there is a great need to implement worldwide jurisdictions…

Japanese ‘expert meeting’ seeks to simplify tax payment for digital assets

Japanese Investigation Committee has commenced discussions aimed at improving the system by simplifying tax payment procedure for virtual currency holders. Reports by regional news outlet Sankei indicated that the committee, which also serves as the main advisory body for the…

“Crypto Nomad” Colin Powell Detained over the Bitconnect Scam

After the story of the defunct Bitconnect went public, the authorities have appeared to be following anyone associated with what was a popular crypto platform, Bitconnect. One of the people connected to Bitconnect who was also the entities promoter, Calen…