Enforcement Actions

According to Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino on October 20, Tether's compliance actions reduced Iran-related stablecoin transactions by 94% since 2023. Ardoino stated on X that Tether typically freezes addresses 4 weeks before the U.S. Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Israel's

According to The Hacker News, President Trump granted Ross Ulbricht, founder of the Silk Road dark web marketplace, a full and unconditional pardon on January 21, 2025, after Ulbricht served more than eleven years in federal prison. The FBI arrested Ulbricht in October 2013 and seized

In October 2026, the Central Bank of Russia and commercial banks began actively countering an arbitrage scheme involving the purchase of USDT on crypto platforms in CIS countries, followed by its sale for cash rubles in Russia. According to RBC, the scheme became widespread in the market in 2026. The Central Bank sees a high risk that funds of undetermined origin are being laundered. How the arbitrage scheme works An individual transfers funds from a Russian bank to a Belarusian bank or deposits

Richard Heart, founder of HEX, PulseChain, and PulseX, was detained by Turkish police and the National Intelligence Organization in Istanbul's Beşiktaş district under a Finland-requested Interpol Red Notice issued in December 2024. The detention triggered sharp market declines: HEX fell

Turkish police detained Richard Heart (Richard James Schueler) in Istanbul today under a Finland-requested Interpol Red Notice linked to a suspected aggravated tax fraud investigation, according to reports. HEX fell nearly 60%, PulseX dropped 49%, and PulseChain's PLS token lost close to 36%

According to Shenzhen Public Security Bureau's Economic Crime Investigation Division, on October 19, the department warned against new fraud schemes packaged as 'RWA real estate tokenization' and 'blockchain notarization'. The agency emphasized that technical terminology does not guarantee

According to Avon and Somerset Police, three men were sentenced on October 15 for breaking into a Bristol home and assaulting the occupant in a failed attempt to steal cryptocurrency. Terroll Paul, 31, Mohamed Samagassi, 37, and Pierre Madzou, 30, pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary. Paul was sent

The European Union and eight countries signed an Additional Protocol to the 2005 Warsaw Convention on October 14, 2026, expanding authorities' powers to trace, freeze, seize, and confiscate assets linked to criminal activity including cryptocurrencies. The agreement was signed in Strasbourg during t

On October 14, 2026, the European Union and eight countries—Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Luxembourg, Monaco, Montenegro, San Marino and the United Kingdom—signed an international treaty in Strasbourg designed to strengthen authorities' ability to trace, freeze, seize and confiscate assets linked to

Lee Chan-jin, governor of South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service, pledged to verify cooperation between blockchain company Vitoz and domestic financial institutions during an Oct. 19 parliamentary audit by the National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee in Seoul. Democratic Party lawmaker

According to the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea, the regulator will conduct fast-track investigations into unfair trading linked to virtual asset issuance foundations to address market order violations. The initiative, unveiled in a National Assembly budget committee report, is part of a

Crypto.com’s North American Derivatives Exchange and Novig separately sued the State of Missouri on Friday, Oct. 17, in the U.S. District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Missouri, respectively, arguing that the Commodity Exchange Act grants the CFTC exclusive jurisdiction over their Event Contracts, preempting the application of Missouri’s gambling laws. Missouri Secretary of State Hanaway: Six Cease-and-Desist Orders Require License Applications or Service Shutdown Within 30 Day

Early Bitcoin investor Roger Ver, known as “Bitcoin Jesus,” reached a deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice in federal court in Los Angeles on October 14. Under the agreement, he will pay up to $49.9 million to settle criminal charges of mail fraud and tax evasion. If Ver complies with the terms of the agreement, the indictment will be dismissed one month later. The $49.9 million covers taxes, civil penalties, and interest. U.S. Department of Justice Announces Deferr

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced on October 19 during a National Assembly Policy Committee audit report that it will rapidly initiate investigations into high-risk areas that significantly undermine market order, including unfair trading linked to virtual asset issuance