Ex-LA Deputy Gets 21 Months for Misusing Police Data
The case links police database access to disputes involving self-styled crypto businessman Adam Iza, underscoring the risks when law-enforcement data is misused.
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The case links police database access to disputes involving self-styled crypto businessman Adam Iza, underscoring the risks when law-enforcement data is misused.
The cross-border pilot turns asset tracing into a coordinated law-enforcement process, with members set to decide on permanent adoption in November 2026.
The association's neutrality strengthens the bill's Senate position, but restrictions on presidential crypto-related profits remain unresolved.
The collaboration matters beyond the 14,000 leads: it shows major exchanges publicly backing blockchain forensics as the default enforcement layer for the next generation of on-chain crime.
The world's largest crypto exchange tells investigators to use slow treaty channels for most cases, while still answering direct calls on child exploitation, terrorism, and imminent threats to life.
The takedown highlights how fake-authority impersonation remains a profitable retail fraud vector, and gives UK law enforcement a fresh courtroom template for crypto-native cases.
Tether froze roughly $72M of the $120.2M routed through Monero, a quick study in how traceable stablecoin liquidity flips toward privacy rails the moment law enforcement closes in.
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.