The Secret Life of a Hong Kong Housewife

Female head of a professional money laundering syndicate busted 2022’s news cycle was dominated by cryptocurrency crimes. It is hard…

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FTX Founder SBF Arrested for Fraud & Money Laundering!

Crypto Crashes into the Christmas Season Like Avalanche   Is it ironic that crypto is crashing Christmas? I think so,…

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Crypto’s Lack of Compliance Puts FOMO into Further Perspective

Sergei Potapenko and Ivan Turogin, each 37 years old, were arrested in Estonia last week and are being extradited to the United…

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Did the FTX meltdown expose crypto as a pump & dump fueled by FOMO?

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has had a horrible November and it just keeps getting worse. Last Tuesday news broke that…

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FATF Angers Crypto Industry in its Fight Against Money Laundering

Al Jazeera broke a news story the other day claiming that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) is, “planning to…

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Hong Kong Duo Caught Laundering $446 Million via Precious Metals

Last week a pair of crooks in Hong Kong were busted laundering $446 million in illicit funds via precious metals, in this…

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Paris’ Dream to Be the Next ‘Crypto-Haven’ Crippled by Money Laundering

Come to Paris, the most recent entrant in the competition to become a haven to pursue crypto dreams! The city…

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Man Caught Swiping $23 Million in Crypto Faces No Criminal Charges

Accountability goes south when a perp gets props from the mark Accountability for wrongdoing in America is in poor supply…

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Who Introduced the Cartels to the Golden Age of Money Laundering?

Innovation and gangsters seem to go together like peanut butter and jelly these days, but what if that sentiment is…

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European Cartel Busted Laundering Cash via Ancient Silk Road

One of the world’s largest criminal organizations is an old Irish band of gangsters known as the Kinahan Clan to…

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New DeFi Crypto Crimes & Exploits

Writing about the emerging world of decentralized finance (DeFi), with a focus on money laundering and fraud, is sort of…

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Money Laundering Probe of Binace CEO? Just Another Day in DeFi

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and CEO of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is under investigation for violating the Bank Secrecy Act.…

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Tinder’s Catfishing Craze Continues to Produce Money Laundering Mules

Catfishing, as a term, is not a hot and new strategy to score dates or romance on popular dating apps…

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Forbes’ Crypto Report Claims Half of All Bitcoin Trades are Fake

Can you still trust your crypto exchange or e-brokerage reports? An ongoing study of the cryptocurrency market by Forbes magazine…

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Shotgun Investment Strategy Crowns a ‘Crypto Winter’ King?

When China banned all cryptocurrency related activities last September, the crypto market was thriving. The devastating shock waves from that…

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Are the Climate Claims Attached to Coming ETH ‘Merge’ Legit?

For months I have hammered the cryptocurrency market on its energy intensive business model, and especially the energy consumption involved…

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Tiffany & Co Earns $12.5 Million From CryptoPunk NFT Pendant While Releasing 38,000 kilograms of Carbon

Did you know that Ethereum’s (ETH) blockchain, which enables the existence of NFTs, owns an annual carbon footprint equal to the…

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Is Tiffany’s CryptoPunk ‘Pendant’ Offering a Positive Sign for Troubled NFT Market?

Tomorrow the esteemed American jeweler, Tiffany & Co., is planning to launch itself into the NFT-sphere with the release of 250…

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