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In an interesting development, US courts have sentenced a cryptocurrency mixer operator from Ohio to prison. The development comes amid active enforcement action by US prosecutors on cryptocurrency mixers due to their stated role…

The Nigerian Federal High Court has upheld the detention of Tigran Gambaryan, CEO of Binance Holdings Ltd, and rejected his recent bail application on health grounds. The decision, issued by Judge Emeka Noate on Friday, keeps…

Chief executives of public and private companies face a Sh3 million fine and up to 24 months in prison for failing to set up a whistleblower system, the attorney general's office said in a draft bill, as the government makes fresh efforts…

The Russian founder of Bitzlato has been sentenced to a fixed term in prison for facilitating more than $700 million in illegal crypto transactions. Anatoly Legkodimov, a Russian co-founder of Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange…

Julian Assange, founder of the non-profit media organization and publisher of leaked documents WikiLeaks, has been released from a UK prison after five years behind bars. according to tweet From the official WikiLeaks…

In a historic ruling, an Australian man Receive He was sentenced to two years in prison for committing identity theft and fraudulently setting up cryptocurrency exchange accounts. The case, decided in the Melbourne District Court…

Changpeng Zhao, the founder and CEO of Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange globally, faces a sentencing recommendation of three years imprisonment from the US Department of Justice (DOJ). This follows his guilty plea last…

Any "salesmen, brokers, dealers or agents" promoting eToro in the Philippines will risk a monetary penalty of 5 million pesos (about US$88,500) or an imprisonment of up to 21 years, or both. This came as, according to the local regulator,…

Last week saw significant legal developments across the cryptocurrency sector, including Sam Bankman-Fried’s sentencing, regulators’ demanding $2 billion from Ripple, and an indictment against KuCoin.  Concurrently, Bitcoin (BTC) reclaimed…

A U.S. court has ruled that Konstantin Ignatov, the brother of Cryptoqueen Ruja Ignatova, who perpetrated the $4 billion OneCoin cryptocurrency fraud, will spend no more time behind bars for his role in the scam. According…