Russian authorities have placed BitRiver founder Igor Runets in custody under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code, the provision covering aggravated fraud.

Binance is facing two separate complaints about how quickly it helps investigators freeze cryptocurrency, one from US prosecutors and one, published today, from European agencies.

Crypto security is no longer only about preventing hackers from reaching a private key. In a growing number of publicly documented cases, criminals are bypassing the software and targeting the person authorised to move the assets.

BitMEX is facing a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that its liquidation system was designed to take Bitcoin from customers and that an internal trading operation used information unavailable to ordinary users.

FTX will begin its fifth round of creditor distributions on July 31, 2026, releasing approximately $900 million through the collapsed exchange’s bankruptcy recovery process.

The US Department of Justice plans to drop criminal charges against Matthew Goettsche, the alleged architect of the $722 million BitClub Network Ponzi scheme, six and a half years after his indictment and with the case already scheduled for trial.

A fraud that used a fabricated cryptocurrency ecosystem as one of its central vehicles has ended in a 30-year prison sentence.

Lawsuit accusing Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks of improperly promoting the failed crypto platform was thrown out on a technicality last year, and the plaintiffs are now taking that dismissal to a federal appeals court.

Microsoft has uncovered a crypto-stealing malware campaign that skips the blockchain entirely and goes straight for the user's device, lifting seed phrases, private keys, and quietly swapping wallet addresses.

Blockchain's permanent record was supposed to make crypto transparent. Binance Research's latest data shows it has also made criminal proceeds structurally impossible to launder at scale.

Maximilien de Hoop Cartier was sentenced to eight years on April 28, 2026, for laundering $470M in Colombian cartel proceeds through USDT and shell companies. The U.S. government seized $2.36M, his commission. The remaining $467.64M is not in the forfeiture order.

Sze Man Yu Inos, known as "Yuki," was sentenced to 71 months in federal prison on April 23, 2026, for a Bitcoin investment fraud scheme that targeted older women across four US jurisdictions over 14 months.