Enforcement Actions

Argentine President Javier Milei and his sister Karina were cleared of criminal charges related to the LIBRA memecoin after federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi dismissed the case at the prosecution's request. Milei had posted about LIBRA in February 2025, which subsequently collapsed more

According to court documents, a federal judge in Argentina dismissed the criminal case against President Javier Milei and 10 others on charges related to the LIBRA cryptocurrency, ruling that posting about the token did not constitute fraud. Federal Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi approved the dism

According to Bitcoin.com News, Connecticut tax preparer Yuridia Trujillo was charged on October 7 with filing false cryptocurrency losses for clients who never owned the related assets. A federal grand jury indicted her after she allegedly submitted at least 4,335 tax returns between 2017 and 2024,

According to FinanceFeeds reporting, Argentine federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi cleared President Javier Milei, his sister Karina Milei, and nine others in the LIBRA criminal investigation on October 23. The 60-page ruling found insufficient evidence to establish fraud or criminal

According to Dragonfly partner Haseeb Qureshi, the disputed patent on threshold ECDSA signing technology was only approved in late July, having been in patent application status prior, and NEAR Intents modified its related algorithm in September. This narrows the potential infringement window to

According to Jin10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a television interview on October 23 that he is considering using cryptocurrency to evade economic sanctions imposed on Israel by other nations. Opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot criticized Netanyahu's proposal on October 24,

India's Income Tax Department issued over 44,000 virtual digital asset (VDA) tax notices as part of stricter Crypto Tax in India enforcement, discovering Rs 888 crore (approximately $104 million) in undisclosed VDA income. The notices were triggered after tax officials matched crypto investor

According to Reuters, on October 23, an Argentine federal judge dismissed the criminal investigation into President Javier Milei's involvement in LIBRA memecoin, ruling that the evidence did not establish fraud despite the token's dramatic collapse. Judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi's decision

According to ChainCatcher and the U.S. Department of Justice, Zheng Zhao, a Chinese national, was extradited from the Netherlands and appeared in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on October 23, charged in a $36.9 million investment

According to WuBlockchain, the Bank of Israel rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's proposal to use cryptocurrencies to circumvent international financial sanctions on October 24. The central bank clarified that cryptocurrencies do not provide a viable means to bypass sanctions and urged the

According to ChainCatcher, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal launched an investigation on October 22 into Tether's payments of approximately $6.3 million to consulting firm Nxum, co-founded by former White House cryptocurrency adviser Bo Hines, who holds one-third stake in the company. Tether has

According to ChainCatcher, daos.fun founder Shaw recently accused core member baoskee of insider trading related to ai16z token rebranding. Shaw claims baoskee sold tokens from the project's executive wallet for approximately $6.6 million in profits, leveraging non-public information about the rebra

According to New York Attorney General Letitia James, announced on October 23, the state is seeking a $1.37 billion judgment against the operators of NovaTech and AWS Mining, two successive cryptocurrency investment schemes that allegedly defrauded over 300,000 investors worldwide of more

According to Matichon, on Oct 24, Thai immigration police arrested a 47-year-old Chinese man suspected of running a cryptocurrency fraud scheme. The suspect, who also held a Cambodian passport, allegedly lured Chinese investors with promises of high returns, causing losses exceeding 100 million