Cryptocrime-law-and-justice

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.

A Los Angeles County jury has convicted former Los Angeles Police Department officer Eric Halem of kidnapping and robbery after prosecutors said he and three alleged accomplices posed as police to steal roughly $350,000 in Bitcoin from a 17-year-old during a 2024 home invasion.

An American known as “Dark Bank” has been extradited to France over allegations he laundered hundreds of millions of euros in cryptocurrency tied to drug trafficking and cyberattacks between 2019 and 2023.