Enforcement Actions

According to ChainCatcher, citing the Connecticut federal prosecutor's office, three men from St. Louis—Sedric Louis, John Davis, and Martel Williams—were charged with conspiracy to commit robbery by surveilling a residence and forcing occupants to transfer cryptocurrency related to a

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Aug. 5 that Few and Far founder Taj Tarsha had been indicted on securities and wire fraud charges tied to more than $10 million raised from 67 investors for an NFT marketplace. Prosecutors allege Tarsha diverted investor funds to online gambling,

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Few and Far founder Taj Tarsha was indicted on Aug. 5 on securities and wire fraud charges tied to more than $10 million raised from 67 investors beginning in February 2022. Prosecutors allege Tarsha used investor funds for personal gambling,

According to Dongguan Public Security Bureau, on August 9, Dongguan Hengxi police successfully intercepted a cryptocurrency investment fraud case and blocked a 1.1 million yuan cash transfer just 5 minutes before the planned transaction. The victim, Ms. Li, was lured by an online scammer who

According to ChainCatcher, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has listed Polar Tensor as a suspicious virtual asset trading platform and identified 17 related websites. The SFC reminded the public that Polar Tensor and its associated websites are not licensed by the SFC to

According to Onchain Lens, Solana OG attacker-linked addresses transferred 2,290 ETH ($4.39 million) to Tornado Cash earlier this week. The transfer occurred nearly one month after the related $14.2 million attack on Solana. The same address cluster had previously used Tornado Cash two weeks

France introduced bill 921 on July 17 to implement the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework (CARF), enabling automatic exchange of crypto user data with 48 countries. French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Noël Barrot presented the text in the Senate, seeking to enshrine the CARF

According to PANews, on August 8, BitMart founder Sheldon addressed concerns about user withdrawal difficulties following the platform's shutdown, stating the exchange will not flee and is conducting asset inventory and system maintenance. Sheldon dismissed rumors and unverified claims from

According to Pyreducer monitoring data, the Aztec Network Private Rollup Bridge attacker transferred 300 ETH (~$572,000) to Tornado Cash on August 8. The attacker has now cumulatively transferred 500 ETH to Tornado Cash since the June 2026 security breach that resulted in approximately $2.165

On August 8, the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges, Shelbit and Aban Tether, for facilitating large-scale asset transfers to circumvent American sanctions and supporting Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). OFAC

According to CoinDesk, Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) arrested more than 20 people in Moscow's financial district on August 8 for operating an unregistered cryptocurrency exchange. The exchange converted fraudulently obtained funds—stolen from Russian citizens including pension recipients—i

According to The Block, the U.S. Treasury Department's OFAC sanctioned cryptocurrency exchanges Shelbit and Aban Tether on August 8, citing their use for transferring large amounts of cryptocurrency, evading sanctions, and supporting the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other

Reform UK chair Lee Anderson formally requested an investigation into £37,500 (approximately $50,500) in donations received by UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting from Labour for the Long Term (LLT), a defunct think tank with Labour Party ties. The request follows a Telegraph investigation linking th