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Three men who broke into a Bristol home to force a cryptocurrency holder to hand over his funds have been sentenced to a combined 16.5 years, as Chainalysis data shows physical attacks on crypto holders climbing worldwide.
Kash Patel announced the FBI's Operation Blackout had seized roughly $17 billion from crypto scam networks, but offered no breakdown of the figure, while Ghanaian authorities pushed back on the bureau's account of a West African raid.
A minor in the Tarn department believed a VPN made him untraceable after making thirteen fake bomb threats. The case, announced by the Gendarmerie nationale, lands as the EU tightens rules on crypto privacy tools ahead of a 2027 ban on privacy-masking assets.
A High Court judge has decided that Chinese law, not English law, should determine victims' rights over 61,000 bitcoins seized in London during the Zhimin Qian fraud investigation, strengthening the UK state's position in a case worth roughly $5 billion.
A trader known as "realist" on X says three armed men invaded his home, bound him and stole roughly $800,000 in crypto and a Rolex — the latest in a string of violent "wrench attacks" against crypto holders in the UK and France.
A Manhattan jury found Jonathan Spalletta guilty of computer fraud and money laundering after he drained roughly $55 million from the DeFi protocol Uranium Finance in April 2021, later spending part of the proceeds on rare trading cards and collectibles.
Mercedes Henry, a 35-year-old former universal banker at Ameris Bank in the Atlanta area, has been indicted on federal charges after allegedly using client banking data to link six accounts to Coinbase wallets controlled by accomplices.
The US Treasury has sanctioned a financing network involving two French associations, accusing them of converting charitable donations into cryptocurrency that reached Hamas's armed wing. Three people were arrested in France.
A sixth suspect has been charged in Poland's investigation into the collapse of Zondacrypto, formerly BitBay, as investigators search a fuel depot where founder Sylwester Suszek was last seen in 2022.
The Financial Conduct Authority raided three unregistered peer-to-peer crypto trading sites in London that swapped cash for bitcoin and stablecoins without identity checks, part of a broader enforcement push against the country's shadow crypto economy.
Seven suspects, including a Swedish fugitive caught in the UAE, are accused of laundering roughly 70 million kronor through cryptocurrency in an operation authorities tie to organised crime and contract killings.
A seizure warrant unsealed by the US Department of Justice cites a February 2025 message from Hamas's al-Qassam Brigades instructing donors to route USDT through Trust Wallet, RedotPay, OKX, Kast or Bybit rather than transferring directly from Binance.
Four suspects have been indicted, three placed in pretrial detention, over a violent home invasion in Taninges targeting a woman's crypto assets, part of a surge in physical crypto crime recorded by French prosecutors.
The National Crime Agency has placed crypto assets third on a new nine-point list of economic crime priorities, citing hundreds of billions of pounds in criminal money moving through UK finance and detailing two operations that yielded arrests, seizures and millions in frozen funds.
Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau says organised crime groups are renting private vaults to hide crypto private keys alongside cash and luxury goods, as the agency works to recover roughly €360 million from its largest crypto seizure ever.
The Paris prosecutor's office has confirmed the indictment and pretrial detention of an 18-year-old suspected member of ZeroBytes, the group behind a breach of France's tax authority that exposed nearly 680,000 files.