Tagged: crime

November 5, 2025 @ 9:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Last month, an event was held in Vienna where Europol, UNODC, and the Basel Institute on Governance joined to discuss criminal activity in the crypto sector. In brief, the group sees crypto-crime as becoming more sophisticated. Burkhard Mühl, Head of Europol’s European Financial and Economic… Read More

November 2, 2025 @ 12:38 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Global law-enforcement officials and financial-crime experts said authorities must move faster and set clearer, common rules to curb crypto-enabled crime, as the 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Crypto-assets closed in Vienna this week. The two-day meeting, co-organised by Europol, the UN Office on… Read More

October 10, 2025 @ 3:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

With the establishment of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve (SBR) and a Digital Assets Stockpile (DAS), the United States declared that it intends to add to its pool of digital capital via additional asset seizures. Chainalysis has recently noted that the cryptocurrency ecosystem presents law enforcement with an opportunity. According… Read More

September 6, 2025 @ 11:30 am By Michael Wong  |  

French prosecutors said seven people have been indicted and placed in preventive detention over the kidnapping of a young Swiss man whose captors demanded a ransom to be paid in cryptocurrency. The victim, in his 20s, was abducted under undisclosed circumstances on Aug. 28 and… Read More

July 6, 2025 @ 1:40 am By Michael Wong  |  

Sweden has ordered six government agencies, including the national police, tax authority (Skatteverket), and enforcement agency (Kronofogden), to ramp up efforts to seize illicit assets such as cryptocurrency, luxury items, and real estate held in corporate structures, as part of a broad crackdown on unexplained… Read More

July 5, 2025 @ 10:44 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Singapore’s central bank has imposed S$27.45 million ($20.3 million) in fines on nine financial institutions after concluding a sweeping investigation into anti-money laundering (AML) lapses tied to a major money laundering case uncovered in August 2023. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said it had… Read More

January 27, 2025 @ 12:41 pm By JD Alois  |  

The new T3 Financial Crime Unit, or T3 FCU, says it has worked with the Spanish Guardia Civil to help freeze $26.4 million in funds from a money laundering ploy. T3 FCU was created by Tether, Tron, and TRM Labs to pursue crypto crimes. The money laundering… Read More

January 20, 2025 @ 2:01 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

In recent years, cryptocurrency has become increasingly more mainstream, the team at Chainalysis noted. Although illicit activity on-chain previously revolved heavily around cybercrime, Chainalysis pointed out that cryptocurrency is now also being used to “fund and facilitate all kinds of threats, ranging from national security… Read More

January 18, 2025 @ 12:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Regtech ComplyAdvantage noted that organized crime—coordinated criminal enterprises profiting from a range of illegal activities—plays “an increasingly dominant role in global criminality.” Regtech ComplyAdvantage pointed out that what’s more, it is shaping much of the “global political agenda.” From Donald Trump threatening to issue sweeping… Read More

January 2, 2025 @ 10:39 am By JD Alois  |  

Tether, TRON, and TRM Labs say they have frozen over $100 million digital assets globally as they seek to impede criminal activity pertaining to crypto. TRM Labs is a blockchain intelligence firm. The collaboration has been labeled the T3 Financial Crime Unit (T3 FCU) launched… Read More

December 18, 2024 @ 8:49 am By Tony Zerucha  |  

ThetaRay, a provider of AI-powered financial crime detection technology, announced the deployment of its new GenAI Financial Crime Detection Suite through a collaboration with Microsoft. By integrating Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service, ThetaRay cited such benefits as enhanced risk assessment, operational efficiency, and better reporting of… Read More

December 17, 2024 @ 5:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FinCrime Dynamics reports that it secured seed funding to improve financial crime prevention processes with AI and synthetic data. More than 3 million cases of fraud are reported in the UK every year, shockingly it accounts for “nearly 40% of all reported crime.” To tackle… Read More

December 9, 2024 @ 5:35 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Holiday season is the gift that “keeps giving for criminals,” rogue employers, and unscrupulous service providers, according to an update from LSEG Risk Intelligence. Analysis of LSEG World-Check database demonstrates how criminals take advantage at “a time when consumer spending is at its highest.” Worker… Read More

November 18, 2024 @ 8:50 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Gurvais Grigg, a former Special Agent and senior executive for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) with 30+ years of public and private sector experience, is now serving as the Global Public Sector CTO at Chainalysis, where his work assists law enforcement (LE) and other… Read More

September 23, 2024 @ 8:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Frankfurt am Main Public Prosecutor’s Office – Central Office for Combating Internet Crime (ZIT) – and the Federal Criminal Police Office ( BKA ) have shut down 47 exchange services hosted in Germany that were “being used for criminal purposes.” These were platforms on… Read More

August 26, 2024 @ 7:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Tether, which claims to be among the largest companies in the digital asset industry, reaffirms its commitment to combat illicit activities, “stop illegal use of stablecoin technology, and provide support to victims through its assistance to, and support of, law enforcement agencies globally.” As the… Read More

May 2, 2024 @ 4:13 pm By JD Alois  |  

Block (NASDAQ:SQ), founded by Twitter (X) creator Jack Dorsey, is being scrutinized by federal prosecutors for allegedly facilitating illicit transactions. The report was first covered by NBC.com. Blcok operates the popular e-commerce platform Square as well as the P2P transfers platform CashApp. According to the… Read More

April 28, 2024 @ 9:52 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Feedzai, a provider of financial crime and risk management solutions, announced results for its 2024 fiscal year, delivering a strong combination of revenue growth acceleration and positive free cash flow margins. Business expansion was highlighted by “the expansion of Feedzai’s behavioral biometrics business, which grew… Read More

April 25, 2024 @ 7:21 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill are charged with operating Samourai Wallet, an unlicensed money transmitting business that reportedly executed over $2 billion in unlawful transactions and allegedly “laundered over $100 million in criminal proceeds.” Damian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District… Read More

April 18, 2024 @ 8:38 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Revolut, the global financial app with more than 40 million customers worldwide, has  announced the release of its first Financial Crime and Consumer Security Report, containing exclusive scam and fraud insights. The report, based on extensive internal research and data analysis, “aims to shed light… Read More