Crime

Crime

Juridique

Self-styled 'Godfather' gets 6 years in prison for $37 million Meta fraud scheme

Adam Iza’s sentence runs concurrently with a 15-year term imposed last month for his role in an attempted bitcoin robbery.

The U.S. Department of Justice headquarters in Washington (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Brooklyn man sent to prison for 12 years for stealing $16M in a Coinbase phishing scheme

The fraudster managed to scam about 100 people across the United States, convincing them of transferring funds to him, claiming their accounts had been hacked.

Brooklyn (Trevor Hayes/Unsplash)

Finance

Inside the FBI’s little-known annual crypto crime gathering

The Virtual Asset Technical Exchange brings together investigators, law enforcement officials, and crypto-security specialists to exchange intelligence on a wide range of crimes involving digital assets.

FBI (Credit: David Trinks on Unsplash/Modified by CoinDesk)

Analyse de Nouvelles

The legal drama of imprisoned Sam Bankman-Fried is waiting on its last act

The fallen leader of the former top exchange FTX is looking for answers from the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sam Bankman-Fried outside court on Feb. 9, 2023 (Liz Napolitano/CoinDesk)

Juridique

U.S. Treasury sanctions another widespread cyber-scam hub, Xinbi Guarantee

Chinese-language platform Xinbi is accused of operating on crypto transactions as it offered services to other criminal networks.

U.S. Treasury Department (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Finance

Singaporean 22-year old pleads guilty to being the ringleader in $245 million crypto fraud case

Malone Lam, a Miami resident charged with stealing 4,100 bitcoin, led a ring of fraudsters who stole crypto via online scams and home invasions.

A hooded figure sits in front of a bank of computer screens. (Arian Darvishi/Unsplash)

Finance

Bit2Me sets up specialized unit to help law enforcement track down crypto assets

The unit formalizes past operations, building on 1.5 million euros in seized crypto the exchange processed in 2025 for agencies including Interpol and Europol.

João Augusto C. Teixeira, Bt2ME's CCO, nex to Adrián Maroño, Head of Investigations at Bit2Shield.

Juridique

Polish prosecutors charge fifth suspect in a massive crypto probe

BitBay became Zondacrypto in 2021. The exchange stopped trading in April after customers faced frozen withdrawals and estimated losses of at least $94 million.

Police in Krakow, Poland (Daniel Silva/Unsplash)

Finance

UK’s crime agency freezes Premier League $13.5 million account in crypto crime probe

Authorities targeted funds from a $140 million sponsorship deal with crypto firm Sorare, though law enforcement confirmed no wrongdoing by the Premier League.

Premier League (James Kirkup/Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto platform operator gets 15-year prison sentence in South Korea due to $50 million scam

A South Korean court sentenced the head of centralized finance (CeFi) lender Delio to 15 years in prison for embezzling digital assets from more than 1,100 customers.

Prison. (Matthew Ansley/ Unsplash)