Reported by James Reddick European and U.S. authorities have taken down a cryptocurrency mixing platform that facilitated rampant money laundering, and they arrested an alleged operator of the service. On Wednesday, Europol announced that German and U.S. agencies seized four servers belonging to ChipMixer as well as approximately $46.5 million in Bitcoin. The U.S. Department of Justice […]
Reported by Tom Schoenberg US prosecutors were investigating Signature Bank’s work with crypto clients before regulators suddenly seized the lender this past weekend, according to people familiar with the matter. Justice Department investigators in Washington and Manhattan were examining whether the New York bank took sufficient steps to detect potential money laundering by clients — such […]
Exclusive: New York prosecutors expanded criminal inquiry of company last year and examined acceptance of $8m with suspected Russian ties Reported by Hugo Lowell Federal prosecutors in New York involved in the criminal investigation into Donald Trump’ssocial media company last year started examining whether it violated money laundering statutes in connection with the acceptance of $8m […]
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