INTERPOL Sweep Arrests 5,811, Seizes $293M in Crypto Scam Bust
A 20-year-old suspect's wallet moved $122.5M in crypto over 10 months via cross-chain swaps, the kind of laundering footprint Operation First Light 2026 was built to catch.
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A 20-year-old suspect's wallet moved $122.5M in crypto over 10 months via cross-chain swaps, the kind of laundering footprint Operation First Light 2026 was built to catch.
If the memo holds, US prosecutors lose their most informative eye inside the world's largest crypto exchange, and an already-cordial regulatory relationship gets colder at exactly the wrong moment…
The Criminal Assets Bureau has now pulled 1,500 BTC from the case, but Arkham-tracked wallets still hold roughly 4,500 BTC, worth more than $275 million at current prices.
FBI and HSI backed the operation, and onchain sleuth ZachXBT has named detained suspect Wojtek Kulisz as 'Merry', the threat actor behind years of social engineering thefts from crypto holders.
The DOJ and White House are being told a single provision in the draft market-structure bill could strip investigators of the tools they currently rely on to trace and prosecute illicit crypto…
The statement is enforcement signalling rather than a new case, but it lands as the FBI publicly re-elevates crypto fraud as a priority under a new director.
Australian law enforcement has seized $4.1 million worth of Bitcoin connected to an alleged darknet marketplace used to…
DSJ Exchange / BG Wealth Sharing drew over $150M before going offline; $41.5M has already been frozen after cooperation between Tether, Binance, OKX and U.S. law enforcement.