Tag: crypto
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Malta takes part in European wide clampdown on crypto-scam ring
Europol has announced it has closed a wide-ranging European investigation over a criminal network that scammed its victims with crypto-currency and fake trading platforms. As of last October, Europol coordinated raids by the French, Spanish and Belgian police among other jurisdictions arrested the individuals involved in this network and seizing up to €1.5 million in…
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German and Swiss Police shut down cryptomixer.io
German and Swiss Police in collaboration with Europol have shut down the crypto-currency mixer, cryptomixer.io. The mixer was used to hide the provenance of bitcoin tokens. Up to €25 million worth of bitcoin has been seized along with the servers in Switzerland and up to 23 terabytes of data. Europol released a cartoon describing the…
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Justin Sun attends private dinner hosted by President Donald Trump after $94 million memecoin payment
Last Thursday evening President Trump held a private dinner to all of those who purchased his memcoin called $Trump. President Trump and his family netted up to $400 million in revenues following a launch of a crypto coin named after the US President right before his inauguration. Justin Sun, who is the founder of the…
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SEC drops security violations investigations on Chiliz: Alexandre Dreyfus goes to Washington
Shitcoin billionaire Alexandre Dreyfus visited the offices of the Securities Exchange Commission on Tuesday and met with its Crypto Task Force according to a document released by the SEC. The meeting included Cody Carbone, CEO of The Digital Chamber and Josh Lawler, a lawyer at Partner Zuber Lawler. During the meeting, Alexandre Dreyfus pitched his…
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Crime on the blockchain is now permissible in the US: DOJ crypto unit is stripped off its powers
Updated with the link of the actual document. The reporting has been changed to reflect the actual wording of the original document. A memo issued by the US Deputy-Attorney General Todd Blanche has ordered the crypto investigative unit at the Department of Justice to scrap pending investigations on crypto-currency and instead begin investigating investigators who…
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OkCoin Europe, now OKX fined €1 million by the FIAU over AML violations
The OKCoin Europe Exchange, now fully rebranded into OKX, has been fined €1,054,269 by the Financial Intelligence Analysis following a list of Anti-Money-Laundering violations. Among these AML violations by the OKCoin exchange include failure to do proper customer review assessments (CRAs) of up to 50% of its clients, failed to do proper due diligence on…
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Tether announces minority stake in Juventus FC
Tether, the world’s largest stable-coin provider, has announced it acquired a stake in the Italian football club Juventus FC. Juventus is the most successful Italian football club ion history in terms league wins and was founded in 1897 and it is based in Turin. The Agnelli family hold a 64% stake in the club through…
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Alexandre Dreyfus is making billions of Euros by scamming football fans in Europe with shitcoins
As explained in this article, Alexandre Dreyfus who has just acquired Lovin Malta, unwittingly avoided the spotlight in the crypto industry for being a small and insignificant player. However, the fact that he was very early in crypto enabled him to make a lot of money from seemingly innocent schemes which today would easily be…
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Donald Trump to be inaugurated later today as the 47th President of the United States
Incoming President Donald Trump is heading to his inauguration as the 47th President of the United States after launching his own memecoin on the Solana blockchain. He has made at least $500 million in realised gains off sales from the coin which is now sitting at more than $11 billion in market capitalisation as of…
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Fastex Partners with Malta Premier League – more questions than answers
The Malta Premier League has recently announced a sponsorship with the cryptocurrency exchange Fastex. Although this may appear positive news at the outset, it is still unclear whether benefits outweigh the negatives especially with crypto’s chequered past here in Malta. The Maltese Herald examines the dynamics of this deal and its implications. A Strategic Partnership…
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The connection between Christian Borg and Jomic Calleja Maatouk
Last year, we begin an investigation on Jomic Calleja Maatouk and broke the story about the murder of his wife in Libya. We also tried to investigate the links between Christian Borg and Jomic Calleja Maatouk, and had a working theory that Jomic Calleja tried to import polonium to kill Christian Borg after a deal…
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More about Andrew Tate’s connections with Bulgarian mafia-crypto-scammers
Contrary to what Andrew Tate has been claiming recently, his case in Romania has not been dismissed. He is still under house arrest where he recently pumped and dumped several of his coins live to his audience and fans. The Romania Court did however, remove some pieces of evidence from the ongoing case brought by…
