Cryptocrime-law-and-justice

Former Goliath Ventures chief executive Christopher Delgado publicly apologised to investors after US prosecutors accused him of running a $328 million cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme.

US authorities charged three men accused of carrying out a violent robbery spree targeting cryptocurrency holders in California and stealing at least $6.5 million in digital assets.

A US federal court has sentenced a California man to 78 months in prison for participating in a nationwide crypto theft conspiracy that stole more than $250 million in digital assets.

Keonne Rodriguez published a public appeal from federal prison asking Bitcoin holders to donate crypto to help his family manage mounting legal debt linked to the Samourai Wallet case.

South Korean prosecutors have requested a 20-year prison sentence for Delio CEO Jeong Sang-ho over alleged crypto fraud involving roughly $169 million in investor funds.

North Korean-linked hackers stole $577 million from two DeFi platforms in April, accounting for 76% of all crypto hack losses in 2026, according to TRM Labs.

A California man was sentenced to 70 months in prison for laundering millions from a $263 million bitcoin theft, US prosecutors said.

Benjamin Pasternak, founder of the Solana-based token launchpad Believe, has been arrested and charged with assault and strangulation following a March 31 incident in New York.

Bitcoin-based decentralised finance platform Solv Protocol said one of its token vaults was exploited for about $2.7 million and offered the attacker a 10% bounty to return the stolen funds.

Canadian police have warned that scammers are impersonating the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in fraudulent crypto recovery schemes targeting people who previously lost funds in earlier scams.