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November 28, 2023

The Binance FinCEN Monitoring: Next In Line Are Partners Including Advcash!

The landmark settlement between crypto exchange Binance and U.S. authorities, including the DOJ, OFAC, and FinCEN, The agreement contains explosive material for the crypto industry. This settlement mandates Binance to exit the U.S. completely and puts the crypto exchange under strict FinCEN monitoring. It has to report 100,000 suspicious transactions retrospectively, which will potentially expose partners such as Advcash.

November 22, 2023

OK, That’s Binance! What About MEXC And Crypto Payment Processors?

The crypto industry is struggling to find its place. This is currently most evident at Binance, which has just had to pay $4.3 billion to drop charges and lawsuits in the US. Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao had to resign and is to go to prison, say the prosecutors. In Europe, MEXC, a crypto exchange from Asia, is currently in the crosshairs of regulators, as are its partners such as Mercuryo, MoonPay, Simplex, and Banxa. MEXC lost its Estonian license last week.

January 20, 2023

United States And French Law Enforcement Actions Against Russian Crypto Exchange Bitzlato!

While the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued an order that identifies the virtual currency exchange Bitzlato Limited d/b/a Bitzlato..

September 7, 2021

Introducing crypto payment processor Global DLT Exchange with Jubiter and Coindeck

Coindeck is a new high-risk crypto payment processor brand operated by Slovakia-based Global DLT Exchange S.R.O., which also operates Jubiter. The latter was the trade name of Estonian Jubiter Technologies OÜ, which was licensed until February 2021. After many scam involvements, the company lost or renounced its license. Jubiter was transferred to Global DLT Exchange S.R.O. but continued to surface as a scam facilitator. Frequently together with BridgerPay. Most recently, we also found both in the GoldBachInvest scam.

August 11, 2021

U.S. court orders crypto broker BitMex to pay a $100M penalty to CFTC and FinCEN

The U.S. CFTC and FinCEN announced that the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered a consent order against five companies charged with operating the BitMEX cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform. The companies are HDR Global Trading Limited, 100x Holding Limited, ABS Global Trading Limited, Shine Effort Inc Limited, and HDR Global Services (Bermuda) Limited. BitMEX has received more than $11 billion in bitcoin deposits and made more than $1 billion in fees.

June 20, 2021

Trade Com Racket – More scam-facilitating crypto payment processors exposed

The crypto exchange Crypto4x (www.crypto4x.net) is a clone of the crypto exchange Tradient (www.tradient.net). There are more of these Tradient clones, such as Qxtrade (www.qxtrade.co) or CrypTek (www.cryptek.fr). According to information from our whistleblowers, these are payment processors in the Trade Com Racket, just like the Latvian Paybis (www.paybis.com), a FinCEN-registered money service business. The Trade Com Racket operates a huge network of broker scams.

July 22, 2020

Wirecard – Braun and 3 others arrested; Phony merchants, a porn baron, marijuana, and transaction laundering

In March 2020, the German payment expert Ruben Weigand and the so-called "porn baron" Hamid “Ray” Akhavan have been arrested in California on charges of running a global money-laundering scheme. The center of this scheme is one of the largest on-demand marijuana marketplaces in the US, Eaze Technologies Inc. Both pleaded not guilty but remained in custody at a jail in California. Both have already been involved in the mega-money-laundering scheme of FBME Bank. And yes, there is a rather close connection to Wirecard. Consequently, Markus Braun war arrested again today.

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