ZachXBT said that a group suspected of laundering Bitget 387000000 USD stolen funds for North Korean attackers is publicly seeking order support, with the funds transferred through cross-chain bridges into mixing services such as Wasabi.
A Costa Rican court sentenced two men to 12 years in prison each, finding that they received and transferred part of the bitcoin ransom from a 2018 kidnapping to conceal the origin of the assets.
According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice said that millions of USD in Iranian oil proceeds were laundered through Binance. The available materials do not provide case documents or a response from Binance.
Jinse Finance summarizes international developments involving hacker thefts, cryptocurrency fraud and money-laundering cases, crackdowns on illegal mining sites, and crypto regulation and political fundraising developments in the US and UK.
UAE and Sweden simultaneously arrest 7 people suspected of transnational money laundering, involving approximately 7100000 USD; tracing crypto transactions also revealed financial links to organized crime and contract killings.