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USA v. $83.2M: Forfeiture Complaint (‘Fraud & Money Laundering’)

February 3, 2025
Forfeiture Complaint regarding cash and crypto seized from accounts at PNC Bank and Coinbase that are allegedly associated with fraud and money laundering in USA v. $13.2 million and $69.9 million USD Coin at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

USA v. $20M in Funds & Securities: Forfeiture Complaint (‘1MDB Fraud’)

January 17, 2025
Forfeiture Complaint regarding "assets involved in and traceable to an international conspiracy to, among other things, launder money misappropriated from 1Malaysia Development Berhad ("1MDB"), a strategic investment and development company wholly owned by the government of Malaysia" in USA v. "$20,000,000 in funds and securities traceable directly or indirectly to UBS Account No. XX-XX715-WB and Fidelity Investment Account No. XXXX XX7922, including 8,268.80 shares of Vanguard Index FDS Vanguard Growth ETF formerly Vanguard Index TR Vipers (Ticker: VUG), 12,539.22 shares of Vanguard Index FDS Vanguard Value ETF formerly Vanguard Index TR (Ticker: VTV), and 17,860 shares of AKRE Focus Ind Instl (Ticker: AKRIX)" at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

USA v. Approx. 1,467,761.163191 USDT: Forfeiture Complaint (‘North Korea Hacking’)

January 6, 2025
Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto seized as part of an investigation into "several recent virtual currency heists perpetrated by known and suspected Democratic People’s Republic of Korea information technology workers who use false identities to gain employment - typically remote employment - as developers, among other jobs, with virtual currency companies and then subsequently exploit these companies’ smart contracts to steal funds" in USA v. Approx. 1,467,761.163191 USDT at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

USA v. $13.5M: Forfeiture Complaint (‘Fraud & Crypto Laundering’)

December 20, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding seized funds allegedly traceable to "criminal syndicates operating cryptocurrency investment and other fraud schemes" in USA v. $13,475,175.67 Seized From Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

USA v. Crypto Associated With Raj Kumar et al: Forfeiture Complaint (‘$1.5M Fraud Targeting Coinbase Clients’)

December 12, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding proceeds "of a fraud scheme that targeted certain owners of cryptocurrency, specifically individuals who had an account with the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase" in USA v. All Crypto in Binance Accounts Associated With Harish Kumar, Raj Kumari, and Rakesh Kumar Athotra, all of India, at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

USA v. 2210.8222 SOL Crypto: Forfeiture Complaint (‘North Korean Military Hacking’)

December 3, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto seized as part of an investigation into "virtual currency hacks perpetrated by members of a North Korean military hacking group known within the cybersecurity community as the Lazarus Group or APT38" in USA v. 2210.8222 SOL Cryptocurrency at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

USA v. $3.4M Seized From Ocean Studios California LLC: Forfeiture Complaint (‘Oleg Deripaska Investigation’)

December 2, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding funds seized as part of "an FBI investigation into OFAC-sanctioned Russian national Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska’s links to the United States and the U.S. financial system, and sanctions-violative activity by Deripaska and others in support of his interests" in USA v. $3,435,676 Associated With Ocean Studios California LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York.

USA v. Crypto Worth $3.3M: Forfeiture Complaint (‘North Korean Military Hacking Groups’)

November 21, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding the proceeds of "virtual currency hacks perpetrated by members of North Korean military hacking groups known within the cybersecurity community as the Lazarus Group, APT38, and CryptoMimic" in USA v. All Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether Seized From Two Accounts at MEXC and Two Accounts at Binance, filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

USA v. 143,141.22354808 IC et al: Forfeiture Complaint (‘FTX Chinese Crypto Bribe’)

November 12, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto seized from an account at Binance that is "traceable" to an alleged scheme in which FTX crypto exchange principal Sam Bankman-Fried "agreed to and directed a multi-million-dollar bribe to seek to unfreeze certain cryptocurrency trading accounts that collectively contained approximately $1 billion in cryptocurrency" which had been seized by Chinese law enforcement in USA v. 143,141.22354808 Internet Computer, 21,040.21498360 Avalanche, 7,668,131.89194094 Ripple, 3,947,566.56755894 Cardano, and 43,137.54120377 Solana at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

USA v. Assets Seized From Urs Meisterhans: Forfeiture Complaint (‘$2.3M Cash & Luxury Watches’)

October 15, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding assets allegedly derived from "a sophisticated international mass-marketing investment fraud scheme to defraud English-speaking investors from around the world of millions of dollars, and to launder the fraud proceeds and distribute those proceeds among the conspirators" in USA v. $2.3 million in cash and 38 "luxury-brand watches" seized from the residence of Swiss national Urs Meisterhans in Cyprus at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

USA v. Crypto Associated With John Daniel Cruz (‘Counterfeit Drugs’)

October 11, 2024
Affidavit in Support of an Application for a Seizure Warrant regarding crypto linked to a scheme "to manufacture, acquire, and sell misbranded drugs, essentially counterfeit and generic equivalents of Xanax, both with alprazolam and with bromazolam or clonazolam" in USA v. Crypto in a Monero Wallet Associated with John Daniel Cruz at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri.

USA v. 1,694,395.463328 Tether: Forfeiture Complaint (‘North Korean Crypto Theft’)

October 4, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto seized from "five virtual currency wallet addresses controlled by members of North Korean military hacking groups known within the cybersecurity community as both the Lazarus Group and Advanced Persistent Threat 38" in USA v. Approximately 1,694,395.463328 of Tether Cryptocurrency at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

USA v. Bitcoin et al: Forfeiture Complaint (‘North Korean Crypto Theft’)

October 4, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding crypto linked with "heists perpetrated by members of North Korean military hacking groups known within the cybersecurity community as both the Lazarus Group and APT38" in USA v. Bitcoin and BTC.b seized from "eight transaction hashes at cryptocurrency bridge-1" at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

USA v. BTC 9.55075247 et al: Forfeiture Complaint (‘$248M Fraud & Crypto Laundering’)

August 26, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of fraud seized from an account at Binance crypto exchange that was allegedly "processed virtual currency equaling the equivalent of approximately $248 million(USD) between 2020 and January 2023" in USA v. 9.55075247 Bitcoin, 80.92772386 Ether, and 16341.9 Polygon at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, USA.

USA v. Binance.com Wallet Funds: Forfeiture Complaint (‘Fraud & Crypto Laundering/Sikandar Azmi’)

July 5, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding "the proceeds of a fraud scheme perpetrated by Sikandar Azmi and/or unknown co-conspirators and/or was involved in and used to facilitate international money laundering" in USA v. All Funds in an account in the name of "an Indian national named Sikandar Azmi" at crypto exchange Binance in USA v. Binance.com Wallet Funds at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.

USA v. $4.1M Seized by DEA: Forfeiture Complaint (Smart Focus International Fund Ltd.)

July 2, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint in USA v. $4,166,303 seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration from an account at Reserve Trust Company in the name of Smart Focus International Fund Ltd., described as "a company registered in the British Virgin Islands, and operating out of Argentina", filed at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

USA v. $878,178 In Name Of Bullpix Solutions LLC: Forfeiture Complaint (‘Crypto Laundering’)

June 27, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint in $878,178 on deposit in an account in the name of Bullpix Holdings LLC at Wells Fargo that is allegedly associated with "a money laundering network that operates in the United States and Colombia, among other countries, and the activities of an individual known as Maximilien de Hoop Cartier", who is a citizen of Argentina, filed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

USA v. $1.1M: Forfeiture Complaint (‘North Korean Hacking & Crypto Theft’)

June 4, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding "the theft of virtual currency by the North Korean military hacking group known as, among other names, the Lazarus Group and Advanced Persistent Threat" in USA v. $1,168,679 in funds associated with two Stablecoin addresses on the Ethereum Network at the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

USA v. Dynapex Energy Ltd. et al: Forfeiture Complaint (‘$12M Iran Sanctions Evasion’)

February 27, 2024
Forfeiture Complaint regarding $12 million seized during "an investigation by Homeland Security Investigations and the Federal Bureau of Investigation into the unlawful use of the U.S. financial system to support and finance Iran’s sale and shipment of petroleum products for the benefit of sanctioned Iranian entities" in USA v. $12 million "associated with" Dynapex Energy Limited, Binrin Limited, Sibshur Limited, Dinrin Limited, Petrochem South East Limited, and Xinghai International Ship Management Limited, all of Hong Kong, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.