Manhattan federal jurors convicted Jonathan Spalletta of computer fraud and money laundering over the $53.3 million Uranium Finance exploit of 2021. Where the roughly $31 million in crypto seized in February 2025 ends up now turns on restitution and forfeiture rulings still to come.
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Swap protocols and wallets collected $761,725 in fees moving funds from the $387.5 million Bitget hack, researcher Andrey Sergeenkov found. Part of $259,718 in linked THORChain affiliate fees reached an OKX-labeled wallet, where deposit records could identify a holder.
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Arkham Intelligence says wallets tied to LIBRA's Kelsier Ventures now hold about $2 million, down from nearly $300 million in February 2025. Because about $100 million of that was USDC and SOL, a falling LIBRA price cannot explain the drop on its own.
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Former NCA officer Paul Chowles must repay £1.81 million over 50 bitcoin he took from a Silk Road 2.0 seizure in 2017, when they were worth about £60,000. The order values only the 30 coins police recovered, at today's price, so the 20 he spent are the state's loss.
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Police referred 18 of 26 investigated users to prosecutors over 17.6 billion won in wagers, identifying them from on-chain transactions after regulators rejected the platform's argument that it had no Korean footprint.
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Seizure warrants across 2025 and 2026 reached domains, servers and one hosted IP rather than a fixed set of wallets. That moves the detection burden from screening known addresses toward spotting the channel that mints new ones.
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A licence certifies anti-money-laundering paperwork, not the existence of the coins. Estonia's own regulator said so, roughly three months after users lost access.
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