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USA v. Crypto Worth $3.3M: Forfeiture Complaint (‘North Korean Military Hacking Groups’)

November 21, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding the proceeds of "virtual currency hacks perpetrated by members of North Korean military hacking groups known within the cybersecurity community as the Lazarus Group, APT38, and CryptoMimic" in USA v. All Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether Seized From Two Accounts at MEXC and Two Accounts at Binance, filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

U.S. takes forfeiture action against crypto linked to ‘$879M heists by North Korean military hacking groups’

October 6, 2024
The United States has filed forfeiture complaints against previously-seized Bitcoin and Tether that allegedly can be traced to the theft of crypto worth $879 million from at least five entities, including those in Japan, Singapore, U.S., and Vietnam, by "North Korean military hacking groups" known as the Lazarus Group and Advanced Persistent Threat 38 over 13 months in 2021-2022.

USA v. Bitcoin et al: Forfeiture Complaint (‘North Korean Crypto Theft’)

October 4, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto linked with "heists perpetrated by members of North Korean military hacking groups known within the cybersecurity community as both the Lazarus Group and APT38" in USA v. Bitcoin and BTC.b seized from "eight transaction hashes at cryptocurrency bridge-1" at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

USA v. Rodney Burton: Criminal Complaint (‘Bitcoin Rodney’)

January 5, 2024
Magistrate Judge Removal of Criminal Complaint from District of Maryland alleging the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business in USA v. Rodney Burton, a.k.a. Bitcoin Rodney, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Hung Infrastructure Ltd. v. Blockware Mining Inc.: Complaint (‘Bitcoin Mining Dispute’)

November 22, 2023
Complaint alleging the defendant "failed to provide" a Bitcoin mining facility "at an 'Uptime of 98% or better” in Hung Infrastructure Ltd., formerly known as Mamoru Mining Ltd., described as a Cayman Islands company thaty it owned by a British Virgin Islands company that is "wholly-owned by Chiu Yu Hung, an individual citizen of Hong Kong SAR" v. Blockware Mining Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

USA v. 97.33604121 Bitcoin et al: Forfeiture Complaint (‘Fraud & Crypto Laundering’)

November 15, 2023
Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of "an investment fraud scam, commonly referred to as 'pig butchering', perpetrated on victims throughout the United States" that were seized from an account at Binance in the name of Wanpadet Sae-Heng, of Thailand, in USA v. 97.33604121 Bitcoin, 2,560,435.71078314 Dogecoin, 884.33368015 Ethereum, 85,843.844344 Cardano, and 884.13243271 EthereumPoW at the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho.

USA v. 0.40401694 Bitcoin et al: Forfeiture Complaint (‘Crypto Fraud & Laundering’)

September 26, 2023
Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of fraud that were seized from accounts at Cayman Islands-domiciled Binance Holdings Ltd. in the names of Martins Eromosele Iyere, Olawumi Stephen Adewale, and Moses Olumide Sokale in USA v. 0.40401694 Bitcoin, 59,911.36 Tether, 9,128.847 Tether, 1,346.37 Decentraland, 1,039.6163 Curvedao, 14,690.894 Zillqa, 5.5550225 Avalanche, and 14,534,916 Shiba Inu at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.

Craig Wright v. Roger Ver: Judgment (‘Defamation’)

February 27, 2023
Judgment dismissing defendant's application for dismissal of a defamation complaint regarding allegations that "Craig Wright is a liar and a fraud" in Craig Wright, a citizen of Australia described as "a computer scientist and entrepreneur" v. Roger Ver, described as a citizen of Saint Kitts and Nevis residing in Japan and "an angel investor and commentator within the Bitcoin and cryptocurrency industries", at the High Court of Justice of Antigua and Barbuda High Court.

USA v. 0.24247794 Bitcoin et al: Forfeiture Complaint (Avinash Pal)

September 26, 2022
Forfeiture Complaint regarding the proceeds of "a transnational criminal organization running an exploitation of elderly and social engineering scam" that were seized from a wallet at Binance crypto exchange in the name of Avinash Pal in USA v. 0.24247794 Bitcoin and 38,616.40303284 Tether at the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.

CFTC v. BitMEX et al: $100M Settlement

August 10, 2021
Consent Order imposing a civil penalty of $100 million against the operators of the BitMEX cryptocurrency trading platform in Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. HDR Global Trading Limited, of the Seychelles; 100x Holdings Limited, of Bermuda; ABS Global Trading Limited, of Delaware; Shine Effort Inc Limited, of Hong Kong, and HDR Global Services (Bermuda) Limited, of Bermuda, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

USA v. 60 Bitcoins: Forfeiture Complaint

July 15, 2021
Forfeiture Complaint regarding the "proceeds of a wire fraud scheme to steal, among other things, cryptocurrency using a cell phone SIM-swapping scheme" that allegedly involved Colton Jurisic, Ricky Handschumacher, and Conor Freeman in USA v. 60.20371501 Bitcoins at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Huobi Co. Ltd. v. Marto HG Digital Asset Group Fund I GP LLC et al: Complaint

June 23, 2021
Complaint alleging fraud involving "Bitcoin losses" in Huobi Co. Ltd., described as a South Korea-based "international cryptocurrency exchange and one of the most prominent names in the digital asset industry" v. Marto HG Digital Asset Group Fund I GP LLC, Marto HG Digital Asset Group Fund I LP, Marto HG Digital Asset Group LLC, all of Delaware, and Taotao He, of New York, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Bitcoin of America v. The Silver Logic LLC: Complaint

May 26, 2021
Complaint alleging "failure to follow basic industry-standard cybersecurity in breach of its contract obligations allowed hackers to steal over $750,000 worth of Bitcoin from the Digital Wallet of SandP Solutions, Inc., d/b/a Bitcoin of America" in SandP Solutions Inc., d.b.a. Bitcoin of America, described as "a cryptocurrency exchange platform that allows customers to exchange cash for Bitcoin, by using Bitcoin ATM machines" v. The Silver Logic LLC, which "claims that it "Provides The Best Custom Software Development In The Industry" and employs a "Zero-Trust Approach to Enterprise Security"", at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Fei Jing et al v. Yan Sun: Complaint

April 28, 2021
Complaint alleging "an illegal, unregistered and unlicensed Bitcoin trading operation" in Fei Jing, of Canada; Luosu Li, of China; Jinyu He, of California; Duanyang Wang, of China; Tian Lan, of Washington, and Chuyao Feng, of Georgia, USA v. Yan Sun, of New York, at the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

USA v. ‘Doctor Bitcoin’: Criminal Information

March 26, 2021
Criminal Information for allegedly operating an unlicensed money transmitting business in USA v. Mark Hopkins, a.k.a. Doctor Bitcoin, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Rakesh Khatri v. Gain Bitcoin et al: Complaint

February 26, 2021
Complaint alleging fraud involving cryptocurrencies in Rakesh Khatri, a citizen of the United States, individually and as assignee of Reshma Khatri, Abishek Raja, Amit Kushwaha, Anchit Singh, Arvind Singh Bajetha, Ashish Lal, Ashitosh Sampat Raje, Ashok Kumar, Bhagyesh Hanumante, Chakresh Jain, Dharmender Shera, Gagan Deep Joshi, Gaurav Chhabra, Girija Raman, Karthik Raman, Lalit Kumar, Lokesh Sharma, Mohamed Haneefa Kottayil, Mohit Malhotra, Mukesh Gupta, Navneet Bhalla, Nikhil Jadhav, Pritpal Singh, Raghavendra R. Athani, Sachin Chavhan, Sanchit Malik, Saurab Wadhera, Shyam Singh, Siddhant Jain, Vikash Bhagat, Yash Jain, Ismail Nadukkandyil, Aarjav Jain, Siddharth Jain, Sanjay Jain, Mayank Jain, Vivek Tiwari, Malthesha P, Shubham Gupta, Sandeep Grewal, Nitin Koshti, Abishek Chauhan, Amar Singh Chandel, Priyavardhini Venkatram, Ajay Singh, Rajbir, Moumita Das, Rajesh Mehra, P.C. Mahajan, Pooja Ahirwar, Albert Ahirwar, Rani Singh, Shyam Lal, Anjan Roy, Arvinder Pal Singh, Vipin Sahney, Arpit Jain, Mukul Gupta, Aman Singhal, Brijesh Soni, Mahesh Vittal Yadav, Aman Paharia, Sandeep Bhalla, Sanjay Ahlawat, Atul Bhalla, Deepak Kumar, Balkrishna Baburao Raje, Girija Silver, Gaurav Gupta, Skalyan, and Deepak Shukla, all citizens of India v. VariableTech Private Limited, d.b.a. Gain Bitcoin, of Singapore; Amaze Mining and Blockchain Research Ltd., of Hong Kong; GBMiners, Mineral Mining Limited Company, described as "a company located in the United Arab Emirates"; Sun & Sand Mining & Minerals Resource (UK) Limited, described as "a company located in England"; Coin Bank-Safe Bitcoin Wallet, ZebPay Exchange, a.k.a. Zebay, a.k.a. Zeb Pay, described as "a cryptocurrency exchange, virtual wallet, and/or wallet provider headquartered in Singapore with a registered office in Australia"; Amit Bhardwaj, Ajay Bhardwaj, and Hemant Bhope at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana.

Poland: Damian Gajos et al

February 5, 2021
Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence regarding "Bitcoin wallets" from Bittrex Inc. - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Poland - for a criminal investigation into Damian Gajos, Adrian Wiecek, Dariusz Myslak, and Kazimierz Pustelnik "for money laundering and endangering the lives and health of many people" involving "designer drugs".

SolidX Management LLC et al v. VanEck Securities Corporation et al: Complaint

January 12, 2021
Complaint alleging breach of contract in SolidX Management LLC, a Delaware corporation based in New York, NY, and VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust, described as a Delaware trust "established as a financial vehicle for purpose of holding bitcoin" v. VanEck Securities Corporation, described as a Delaware corporation based in New York, NY; Van Eck Bitcoin Trust, described as a Delaware trust established "as part of vanEck's scheme to obtain SEC approval for a bitcoin-based ETF", and VanEck Digital Assets LLC, of Delaware, at the Supreme Court of the State of New York, County of New York.

Jerome Wilson-Chalkley v. BitMEX et al: Complaint

November 30, 2020
Complaint alleging fraud involving cryptocurrency in Jerome Wilson-Chalkley, of London, England v. HDR Global Trading Limited, a.k.a. BitMEX, described as a Seychelles-domiciled "cryptocurrency/derivatives exchange"; ABS Global Trading Limited, of San Francisco, California, and Arthur Hayes at the Superior Court of the State of California, County of San Francisco.

CFTC sues operators of BitMEX crypto derivatives platform

October 1, 2020
The CFTC has sued eight companies and individuals in or from Bermuda, Hong Kong, Seychelles, United Kingdom, and the United States, alleging they operated a cryptocurrency derivatives platform without being registered.

USA v. Danil Potekhin et al: Forfeiture Complaint

September 16, 2020
Forfeiture Complaint in USA v. Cryptocurrency and Cash allegedly derived from "a large scale, sophisticated 'phishing' campaign" by Russian nationals Danil Potekhin and Dimitrii Karasavidi that targeted cryptocurrency exchanges, including Poloniex, based in San Francisco, domiciled in Delaware; Binance, based in Hong Kong, domiciled in the Cayman Islands, and Gemini Trust Company LLC, based in New York, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Forex Birds Ltd. et al: Emergency Cease and Desist Order

September 3, 2020
Emergency Cease and Desist Order for alleged fraud and the sale of unregistered securities involving "cryptocurrency trading investment programs" in Texas State Securities Board v. Forex Birds Ltd., Kumar Babu Gondesi, a citizen of India; Eric Balusek, a.k.a. Darwin Eric Balusek, a.k.a. Bitcoin Pope, all of England and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Pek Universe, of Australia.

USA v. 53 Virtual Currency Accounts et al: Forfeiture Complaint

August 13, 2020
Forfeiture Complaint involving "an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service - Criminal Investigation's Cyber Crimes Unit, Homeland Security Investigations, and Federal Bureau of Investigation into online fundraising activities conducted by Hamas's military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades" in USA v. 53 Virtual Currency Accounts, 127 Virtual Currency Properties, Five Accounts Heal at Financial Institution 1, The AlQassam.ps Domain, and The Qassam.ps Domain at the U. S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

SEC v. Jack Abramoff: Complaint

June 25, 2020
Complaint alleging a "fraudulent and unregistered offer ... of a blockchain-based digital token called AML Bitcoin" in U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jack Alan Abramoff at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

SEC v. NAC Foundation LLC et al: Complaint

June 25, 2020
Complaint alleging "the fraudulent offer and sale of digital asset securities" in U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. NAC Foundation LLC and Rowland Marcus Andrade at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

USA v. Rowland Andrade: Criminal Indictment

June 22, 2020
Criminal Indictment alleging fraud and money laundering involving an Initial Coin Offering for a purported cryptocurrency known as AML Bitcoin in USA v. Rowland Marcus Andrade at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Alex Holmes et al v. Chet Mining Co. LLC et al: Complaint

June 10, 2020
Complaint alleging fraud and racketeering involving an alleged scheme involving "cryptocurrency mining equipment and/or hosting services" in Alex Holmes, of Los Angeles, California; Josh Navarro, of Miami, Florida; Nico Tramontana, of Millville, New Jersey; Bitcoin Ventures 2020 LLC, of Virginia; Yasar Corporation, of Las Vegas, Nevada, and OnePurpose Ltd., a Hong Kong company based in Shenzhen, China v. Chet Mining Co. LLC, described as a Wyoming company based in New York, NY; Chet Mining Co. Canada Ltd., described as a company domiciled in British Columbia, Canada based in New York, NY, and Chet Stojanovich, of New York, NY, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Matthew Script et al v. iFinex Inc. et al: Amended Class Action Complaint

June 3, 2020
Consolidated Class Action Amended Complaint alleging "a sophisticated scheme to fraudulently inflate the price of cryptocurrencies ..., causing the price of these cryptocommodities to spike far above their legitimate value in the largest bubble in human history, and ultimately resulting in billions of dollars of damage to innocent cryptocommodity purchasers" in Matthew Script, Benjamin Leibowitz, Jason Leibowitz, Aaron Leibowitz, and Pinchas Goldshtein v. iFinex Inc., a.k.a. Bitfinex; BFXNA Inc., BFXWW Inc., Tether Holdings Limited, Tether Operations Limited, Tether International Limited, DigFinex Inc., all of the British Virgin Islands; Tether Limited, of Hong Kong; Philip G. Potter, of New York; Giancarlo Devasini, described as a citizen of Italy; Ludovicus Jan van der Velde, described as a citizen of the Netherlands; Reginald Fowler, of Arizona; Crypto Capital Corp., of Panama; Bittrex, Inc., described as a Delaware company based in Seattle, Washington, and Poloniex, LLC, described as a Delaware company based in Boston, Massachusetts, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Mina de Oro LLC et al v. Bitclub et al: Complaint

June 3, 2020
Complaint regarding "a Bitcoin related multi-level BTC mining scheme" in Mina de Oro LLC and The Toy Chest LLC, both of Nevada v. Matthew Brent Goettsche, Jobediah Sinclair Weeks, Joseph Frank Abel, Silviu Catalin Balaci, and Bitclub at the U. S. District Court for the District of Nevada.

BMA LLC v. BitMEX et al: Complaint

May 16, 2020
Complaint alleging fraud, racketeering, and money laundering involving the "cryptocurrency derivatives exchange platform BitMEX" in BMA LLC, of Puerto Rico v. HDR Global Trading Limited, a.k.a. BitMEX, of the Seychelles; ABS Global Trading Limited, described as being based in San Francisco, California; Arthur Hayes, described as a citizen of the United States based in Hong Kong; Ben Delo, described as a citizen of the United Kingdom based in Hong Kong; and Samuel Reed, described as a citizen of the United States based in Hong Kong, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC v. Ripple Labs Inc. et al: Complaint

May 1, 2020
Complaint alleging the sale of unregistered securities involving a cryptocurrency known as 'XRP' in Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC, of Puerto Rico v. Ripple Labs Inc., of Delaware; XRP II LLC, described as a New York-domiciled entity based in San Francisco, and Bradley Garlinghouse, described as Ripple's CEO, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

3 Point Ventures Ltd. et al v. Chet Mining Co. LLC et al: Complaint

March 24, 2020
Complaint alleging fraud and breach of contract regarding crypto mining products and services in 3 Point Ventures Ltd., of the Cayman Islands, and Amir Fardghassemi, a resident of California and Dubai v. Chet Mining Co. LLC, of Wyoming; Chet Mining Co. Canada Ltd., described as a British Columbia company based in New York, and Chet Stojanovich, of New York, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

United American Corp. v. Bitmain Inc. et al: Amended Complaint

February 28, 2020
Amended Complaint alleging "a scheme by a tight knit network of individuals and organizations to manipulate the cryptocurrency market for Bitcoin Cash" in United American Corp., of Florida v. Bitmain Inc., of Delaware; Roger Ver, described as a resident of Japan; Bitmain Technologies Ltd., described as a Hong Kong company based in China; Jihan Wu, described as a resident of China; Payward Ventures Inc., d.b.a. Kraken, of Delaware; Jesse Powell, Shammah Chancellor, and Jason Cox, all of California, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Canadian Troy Hogg sues Hong Kong-based crypto exchange HitBTC

February 20, 2020
Canadian Troy Hogg, who perpetrated a cryptocurrency scam via his Bermuda-domiciled Arbitrade group, is suing a Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange known as HitBTC, alleging it has failed to redeem C$1.18 million of Bitcoin he claims to own.

USA v. Danil Potekhin et al: Superseding Indictment

February 18, 2020
Superseding Indictment alleging computer hacking, fraud, identity theft, and money laundering involving "a sophisticated phishing campaign targeting users of Poloniex, Binance, and Gemini's digital currency exchanges" in USA v. Danil Potekhin and Dmitrii Karasavidi, both residents of Russia, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Bryan Faubus v. iFinex, Inc. et al: Complaint

January 9, 2020
Class Action Complaint alleging fraud involving Bitcoin cryptocurrency in Bryan Faubus, of New York v. iFinex Inc., BFXNA Inc., and BFXWW Inc., each described as a British Virgin Islands company based in Hong Kong; DigFinex Inc., of the BVI; Tether Holdings Limited, described as a BVI company based in Taiwan; Tether Limited, described as a Hong Kong company based in Taiwan; Tether Operations Limited, of Hong Kong, and Tether International Limited, of Hong Kong, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Eric Young et al v. iFinex Inc. et al: Class Action Complaint (New York)

January 8, 2020
Class Action Complaint alleging fraud involving Bitcoin cryptocurrency in Eric Young, of Pennsylvania; Adam Kurtz, of New York, and David Crystal, of Florida v. iFinex Inc., BFXNA Inc., and BFXWW Inc., each described as a British Virgin Islands company based in Hong Kong; DigFinex Inc., of the BVI; Tether Holdings Limited, described as a BVI company based in Taiwan; Tether Limited, described as a Hong Kong company based in Taiwan; Tether Operations Limited, of Hong Kong, and Tether International Limited, of Hong Kong, at the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Editor's Note: This is a re-filing of a class action complaint that was first filed at federal court in Seattle, Washington on November 22nd, 2019 and voluntarily dismissed on January 7th, 2020.

Eric Young et al v. iFinex Inc. et al: Class Action Complaint (Seattle)

November 22, 2019
Class Action Complaint alleging fraud involving cryptocurrencies in Eric Young, a resident of Pennsylvania, and Adam Kurtz, a resident of New York v. iFinex Inc., BFXNA Inc., and BFXWW Inc., each described as a British Virgin Islands company based in Hong Kong; Tether Holdings Limited, of the British Virgin Islands; Tether Limited, described as a Hong Kong company based in Taiwan; DigFinex Inc., of the British Virgin Islands; Tether Operations Limited, of Hong Kong, and Tether International Limited, of Hong Kong, at the U. S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.

Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC v. FTX Trading Ltd. et al: First Amended Complaint

November 8, 2019
First Amended Complaint alleging cryptocurrency market manipulation, RICO, and fraud in Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC, of Puerto Rico v. FTX Trading Ltd., of Antigua and Barbuda; Alameda Research LLC, of Delaware; Alameda Research Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Samuel Bankman-Fried, of California; Gary Wang, of California; Andy Croghan, of California; Constance Wang, described as a citizen and resident of Hong Kong; Darren Wong, of California, and Caroline Ellison, of California, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

$150M lawsuit alleges crypto fraud by parties in Antigua, BVI, Hong Kong & US

November 4, 2019
A complaint for damages of $150M for alleged cryptocurrency futures trading fraud and the operation of an unlicensed money transmitting business has been filed against individuals and companies in Antigua, British Virgin Islands, Hong Kong, and the United States, including Alameda Research and FTX Trading.

Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC v. FTX Trading Ltd. et al: Complaint

November 2, 2019
Complaint alleging cryptocurrency market manipulation, RICO, and fraud in Bitcoin Manipulation Abatement LLC, of Puerto Rico v. FTX Trading Ltd., of Antigua and Barbuda; Alameda Research LLC, of Delaware; Alameda Research Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; Samuel Bankman-Fried, of California; Gary Wang, of California; Andy Croghan, of California; Constance Wang, described as a citizen and resident of Hong Kong; Darren Wong, of California, and Caroline Ellison, of California, at the U. S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
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