Crime

A cryptocurrency trader has accused an ex-employee of Revolut of attempting to extort him by threatening to leak sensitive Know Your Customer (KYC) data — an incident that is now under investigation by law enforcement.

Human trafficking operations using cryptocurrency surged 85% in 2025, reaching hundreds of millions of dollars, with stablecoins like Tether and USDC widely used for large international payments. Traffickers use platforms like Telegram and scam compounds to coordinate forced labour and online scams, while blockchain transparency is helping authorities track and disrupt these networks.

Three teenagers from Sheffield have been sentenced to youth detention after orchestrating a brazen $4.3 million cryptocurrency robbery in London, only to lead the authorities to themselves by recording the who robbery on social media.

An alleged Bitcoin ransom demand has injected new urgency into the search for Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Today show anchor Savannah Guthrie, as authorities investigate what they now believe may be a targeted abduction rather than a routine missing-person case.

Russian authorities have placed Igor Runets, founder and CEO of BitRiver — one of the country’s largest Bitcoin mining companies — under house arrest as part of an investigation into alleged tax evasion, deepening the legal and financial challenges facing the firm.

U.S. Authorities have arrested former Canadian Olympic snowboarder Ryan Wedding, bringing an end to a decade-long international manhunt and marking a turn of events of how an once elite athlete could turn into the mastermind of a large scale transnational crime syndicate.

U.S. federal prosecutors have charged Jorge Figueira, a 59-year-old Venezuelan national, with orchestrating an alleged $1 billion crypto-enabled money-laundering operation, marking what authorities describe as one of the most significant cases of its kind ever pursued by the Justice Department.

China’s former digital yuan architect, Yao Qian, is facing serious corruption charges after Chinese state media revealed that he allegedly accepted more than $8 million in crypto bribes while holding senior regulatory positions.

South Korean authorities have broken up a Cambodia-based criminal syndicate that defrauded victims of more than $1.93 Billion Korean Won using the narrative of being associates of billionaire Elon Musk and offering interested investors a share of SpaceX.

A massive hack has struck Trust Wallet, one of the most widely used crypto wallets, resulting in estimated losses exceeding $6 million.