In a significant crackdown on crypto-related crime, the U.S. Department of Justice announced charges against Aliaksandr Klimenka, a 42-year-old Belarusian and Cyprus national. Unsealed indictments reveal Klimenka’s alleged involvement in a money laundering conspiracy and the operation of BTC-e, an unlicensed digital currency exchange, alongside Alexander Vinnik and other associates from 2011 to July 2017. […]
The Government of Estonia has approved the extradition of Ivan Turogin and Sergei Potapenko, co-founders of the defunct Bitcoin mining company HashFlare, to the United States to face charges of cryptocurrency fraud, among other criminal activities. According to a report by local media postimees, this represents the second time the government of the Northeastern European […]