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South Korea's suspended president, Yoon Seok-yeok, will accept the arrest warrant and walk out of his official residence to the Gwacheon Public Investigation Office.
A South African law enforcement agency has recently arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of using cryptocurrencies to finance terrorist activities. The investigation was launched in May 2018, when the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) and the Detection Unit received information regarding suspicious transactions suspected of being linked to terrorist financing. It is alleged that on November 30, 2017, the suspect made a...
Thai police recently arrested six police officers and a civilian after a Vanuatu citizen of Chinese origin filed a complaint accusing them of making a fake arrest and extorting $165,000. The Chinese man, named Sai, accused the rogue police officers and their associates, including a Chinese couple acting as interpreters, of using fraudulent legal threats to extort stablecoins from his family.
South Korean police arrested a man in his 40s in August 2024 for allegedly planning a major cryptocurrency scam that defrauded 158 investors of a total of 16 billion won (about $12 million). It is reported that the scam ran from November 2021 to June 2022, and the suspects promised investors a monthly return of 18% under the guise of a fake cryptocurrency mining business. The victims' personal losses ranged from 1.20 million won to 250 million Korean...
On August 21, the authorities of Montenegro said that it has arrested Roman Ziemian, the co-founder of the suspected crypto scam scheme FutureNet, which is suspected of stealing about 21 million dollars of funds from investors. A specialized police unit found Ziemian using a fake identity and living in the country's capital Podgorica, Montenegro's police headquarters said in a statement on August 19. South Korea and Ziemian's native Poland have issued arrest warrants charging him with fraud, mon...
Nigerian police have confirmed the arrest of self-proclaimed cryptocurrency billionaire Linus Williams, also known as Blord. Williams faces charges related to cyber fraud, terrorist financing and breaches of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Act. A police spokesperson said some of Williams' charges involved fraudulent activities using cryptocurrencies. Specifically, he ran a trading platform that used naira to buy stablecoins USDT and bitcoin, which violated the country's laws.
