Crypto

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged proceeds of "a business email compromise fraud scheme" in which a "victim" allegedly lost $400,000 in USA v. 18.836 BTC seized from a Binance account at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Complaint for $1.5 million in alleged crypto losses due to "unauthorized transactions" in James Zou v. River Financial Inc., which "claims to provide custom Bitcoin brokerage, custody, and mining solution for its customers", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.

Forfeiture Complaint regarding the alleged "proceeds of a cryptocurrency investment fraud scheme" in USA v. 87,637.00 USDT seized from a Binance account at the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.

Motion for Temporary Injunction "to preserve the company’s business operations, maintain the status quo, and to otherwise prevent the total shutdown of the business during the pendency of this litigation" in Crypto Caverns LLC, a Delaware-domiciled, New York-based "computer/server hosting company that focuses on cryptocurrency mining space" v. XBTO Trading LLC, described as a Delaware company based in Miami, and Zafra LLC, of New York, at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Criminal Indictment alleging the defendants laundered "at least over $1 billion in criminal proceeds through the Tornado Cash service" in USA v. Roman Storm, a citizen of the USA, and Roman Semenov, a citizen of Russia, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging breach of contract regarding "defective" crypto hardware in Crypto Caverns LLC, a Delaware-domiciled, New York-based "computer/server hosting company that focuses on cryptocurrency mining space" v. XBTO Trading LLC, described as a Delaware company based in Miami, and Zafra LLC, of New York, at the Circuit Court of the 11th Judicial Circuit, in and for Miami-Dade County, Florida.

Complaint by "a victim of attackers who stole over $6.3 million of his digital assets" in P. Bart Stephens, described as "the co-founder of a venture capital firm that invests in digital asset ventures" v. Jane Doe et al at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

First Amended Class Action Complaint alleging that "As a result of Defendants' negligent, fraudulent, and unlawful conduct, countless Atomic Wallet user wallets around the world were hacked by North Korean hackers, resulting in the loss of over $100,000,000.00 USD worth of cryptocurrency related assets on or about June 3, 2023" in Robert Meany, Graham Dickinson, John Briscoe, Todd Gammon, Michael Fisk, Paul Unruh, Jovan Silva Delgado, Gregory Loberg, Vincent D'Amelio, Carter Ruess, Daniel Werter, Jeffrey Rogers, Erik Nelson, Landon Grubb, Sam Breazeale, Brenda Abbley, Dereck Ernest, Eric Jensen, Douglas Edwards, Dustin Falk, and Daniel Hayes v. Atomic Protocol Systems OÜ, d.b.a. Atomic Wallet, of Estonia; Evercode Infinite, d.b.a. Evercode Lab, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates; Konstantin Gladyshev, a.k.a. Konstantin Gladych; Ilia Brusov, a.k.a. Ilya Berezovsky, a.k.a. Ilya Bere, and Pavel Sokolov, a.k.a. Paul Sokolov, described as citizens and residents of Russia, at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Sixth Superseding Indictment alleging fraud and money laundering in USA v. Samuel Bankman-Fried at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Amended Consolidated Class Action Complaint in Edwin Garrison et al v. SkyBridge Capital II, LLC, Shane Chen, Sino Global Capital Holdings, LLC, Temasek International (USA) LLC, Samuel Bankman-Fried, Thomas Brady, a.k.a. Tom Brady; Stephen Curry, Golden State Warriors LLC, Shaquille O'Neal, Udonis Haslem, William Trevor Lawrence, Kevin O'Leary, Shohei Ohtani, David Ortiz, Naomi Osaka, Nishad Singh, Solomid Corporation, Gary Wang, Gisele Bundchen, Lawrence Gene David, a.k.a. Larry David; Caroline Ellison, Dan Friedberg, Sam Trabucco, Thoma Bravo L.P., Paradigm Operations LP, Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, Prager Metis CPAs, LLC, Armanino, LLP, Silvergate Bank, Zixaio Gary Wang, Ben Armstrong, Creators Agency, LLC, Andrei Jikh, Brian Jung, Erika Kullberg, Jeremy Lefebvre, Tom Nash, Kevin Paffrath, Jaspreet Singh, Graham Stephan, Altimeter Capital Management, LP, Deltec Bank and Trust Company Limited, Farmington State Bank, d.b.a. Moonstone Bank; Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, as Receiver for Signature Bank; Fenwick & West LLP, Prager Metis CPAs, LLC, Signature Bank, Sino Global Capital Limited, Softbank Group Corp., Softbank Vision Fund (AIV M2) L.P., Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, Tiger Global Management, LLC, Multicoin Capital Management LLC, Ribbit Capital, L.P., Jean Chalopin, K5 Global Advisor LLC, SkyBridge Capital II, LLC, SoftBank Group Corp., SoftBank Global Advisers Limited, SB Group US, Inc., and SoftBank Investment Advisers (UK) Limited at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Stipulation and Order in CipherBlade LLC, of Pennsylvania, USA v. CipherBlade LLC, of Alaska, USA; Manuel Kriz, Michael Krause, Jorn Henrik Bernhard Janssen, Sergio Garcia, Justin Maile, CipherBlade APAC Pte Ltd., of Singapore; Jussi Aittola, Omega3Zone Global Ltd., of Cyprus; Paul Marnitz, Inquisita Solutions Ltd., of Cyprus, and Green Stone Business Advisory FZ LLC, of Singapore, at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint for Interpleader regarding "the multiple insureds’ competing claims to limited proceeds under the Hiscox Policy in connection with the collapse of FTX Trading Ltd. and related entities" in Hiscox Syndicates Limited, of England v. Paper Bird Inc., Samuel Bankman-Fried, Nishad Singh, Ramnik Arora, Claire Watanabe, Howard Andrew Fisher, Amy Wu, Zixiao (Gary) Wang, Ryan Salame, Can Sun, Constance Zhe Wang, Luk Wai (Jen) Chan, Natalie Tien, Zane Tackett, Zhongyuan (David) Ma, Daniel Friedberg, Robin Matzke, Patrick Gruhn, Ross Rheingans-Yoo, Nicholas Beckstead, and Jonathan Cheesman at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Application by William Laggner to take discovery from Ricardo Salinas Pliego, described as "the third wealthiest individual in Mexico" who is "the founder and chairman of Grupo Salinas, a corporate conglomerate", for use in legal proceedings in the Cayman Islands involving a petition to wind-up crypto and blockchain firm Uphold Ltd. amid allegations that "Board members Adrian Steckel, James Chen, and former Uphold CEOs J.P. Thieriot, Anthony Watson, and Tim Parsa, in concert with Salinas, engaged in a series of unlawful and self-enriching transactions to the detriment of the Company and other shareholders", filed at the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Class Action Complaint in Alexander Chernyavsky, of Florida; Ryan Henderson, of California; Vitor Vozza, a citizen and resident of Brazil; Kyle Rupprecht, a citizen and resident of Canada; Warren Winter, a citizen and resident of Germany; Sunil Kavuri, a citizen and resident of the United Kingdom v. Temasek Holdings (Private) Limited, of Singapore; Temasek International (USA) LLC, SoftBank Group Corp., SB Group US, Inc., Softbank Investment Advisers (UK) Limited, Softbank Global Advisers Limited, Sino Global Capital Limited, and Sino Global Capital Holdings, LLC at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Class Action Complaint alleging a law firm participated in a crypto fraud by the FTX Group in Leandro Cabo, of California; Ryan Henderson, of California; Kyle Rupprecht, a citizen and resident of Canada; Vijeth Shetty, of Florida, and Warren Winter, a citizen and resident of Germany v. Fenwick & West LLP at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.

Complaint in LedgerScore International Pte. Ltd., of Singapore, and LS Litigation Holdings LLC, of Wyoming v. AuBit X LLC, d.b.a. Freeway, of Wyoming; AuBit Holdings (UK) Limited, of the United Kingdom; AuBit Tokens Inc., of Seychelles; AuBit International, of the Cayman Islands; Freeway Operations Inc., of Seychelles; Freeway Reserves Foundation, of the Cayman Islands; Freeway Future Foundation, of the Caymans Islands; Ardu Prime SA., of Greece; Ardu Prime Investment Services SA, of Greece; Ardu Prime Investment Services (UK) Limited, of the United Kingdom; AuBit Prime (Pty) Ltd., of South Africa; Sadie Hutton Doggart, Graham Doggart, Bradley Hunt, Arena Racing Company Ltd., of the United Kingdom; Faywaz Ayoub, Revenu Quebec, described as an agency of the Province of Quebec, Canada; Matthew Spangard, Matthew Oxborrow, Peter Nigel Neilson, Alex Troll, Lord Mark Kearns, Joel Krueger, Jacqueline Mallett, David Brimacombe, Elaine Bannerman, Callum Evans, Gresham International Group LLC, of the United Kingdom; Sotirios Probonas, Ilias Chatziantoniou, Sotirios Botsios, 170639 Canada Inc., a.k.a. 1270639 Canada Inc., of Canada; Jordan Kerridge, Joel Kovshoff, Sean Windle, Matthew Sgherzi, and Jeff Kirdeikis at the District Court, First Judicial District, Laramie County, Wyoming.

Plea Agreement and Statement of Offense regarding an offense of "conspiring to launder approximately 119,754 BTC in wire fraud proceeds, worth approximately $71 million at the time of the wire fraud" in USA v. Heather Rhiannon Morgan at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Plea Agreement and Statement of Offense regarding an offense of "conspiring to launder approximately 119,754 BTC in wire fraud proceeds, worth approximately $71 million at the time of the wire fraud" in USA v. Ilya Lichtenstein at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Complaint alleging "betrayal and deceit in a partnership formed to develop a browser-based cryptocurrency wallet" in Joel Dietz v. Consensys Inc., Consensys Software Inc., Consensys AG, of Switzerland; Joseph Lubin, Aaron Davis, and Daniel Finlay at the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco.

Russian retired mixed martial artist Khabib Nurmagomedov is suing California-based gaming platform firm LegionFarm for allegedly failing to pay him $1.8 million in revenue from the sale of non-fungible tokens of his likeness.

Complaint for "NFT fee payments" of $1.8 million in Khabib Nurmagomedov, described as a Russian "world-famous athlete and entrepreneur" who resides in Nevada v. LegionFarm Inc. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging Richard Heart "raised more than $1 billion in the unregistered offer and sale of crypto asset securities to retail investors in the U.S. and abroad" and "misappropriated" millions of dollars in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Richard J. Schueler, a.k.a. Richard Heart, described as "an American-born Internet marketer, content creator, and serial entrepreneur living in Finland"; PulseChain, and PulseX at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

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Class Action Complaint in Connor O'Keefe v. Farmington State Bank, a.k.a. Moonstone Bank; Deltec Bank & Trust Company Limited, described as "an offshore bank licensed and operating in The Bahamas", and Jean Chalopin, described as "a banking executive domiciled in The Bahamas", at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington.

Order for the disclosure of information regarding crypto wallets in the names of Pavel Sidorov and Damian Carreras and for public examination in Miracle World Ventures Limited, of the British Virgin Islands, acting through its Joint Liquidators (Adrian Hyde, Joanne Wild, and Brian Simpson, all of Begbies Traynor) v. Alla Nicolayevna Babenko at Gibraltar Supreme Court.

Director Details for Valorte Capital, obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on July 24th, 2023.

Director Details for Folkvang Ltd., obtained from the Cayman Islands General Registry on July 24th, 2023.

Application for the appointment of a Commissioner to collect evidence from Cloudflare Inc. regarding "accounts associated with www.brokerchooser.com and www.tradevision-group.net" - pursuant to a request for judicial assistance from Poland - for a criminal investigation into "unknown suspect(s) for fraud offenses", including a person "who introduced himself as Jan Kobi".

Complaint alleging crypto-based securities fraud in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Alexander Elbanna, Digital World Exchange LLC, BoostedPro LLC, and D.W. Exchange LLC, as Defendants, and Angela Elbanna, as Relief Defendant, at the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.

Criminal Information alleging fraud and money laundering involving crypto allegedly stolen from British Virgin Islands-domiciled crypto exchange Bitfinex in USA v. Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Rhiannon Morgan at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Complaint "to avoid and recover unlawful transfers of hundreds of millions of dollars that Defendants misappropriated" in FTX Trading Ltd., of Antigua and Barbuda; Alameda Research LLC, Alameda Research Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands; North Dimension Inc., Cottonwood Grove Ltd., and West Realm Shires Inc. v. Samuel Bankman-Fried, Zixiao 'Gary' Wang, Nishad Singh, and Caroline Ellison at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Complaint in alameda Research Ltd., of the British Virgin Islands, and FTX Trading Ltd., of Antigua and Barbuda v. Platform Life Sciences Inc., of Canada; Lumen Bioscience Inc., GreenLight Biosciences Holdings PBC, Riboscience LLC, Genetic Networks LLC, 4J Therapeutics Inc., Latona Biosciences Group, of the Bahamas; FTX Foundation, Samuel Bankman-Fried, Ross Rheingans-Yoo, and Nicholas Beckstead at the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware.

The United States has seized $45 million in a U.S. bank account operated by Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust that was allegedly used to launder the proceeds of crypto-based investment fraud and other scams, OffshoreAlert can reveal.

Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim alleging an outstanding loan of 1,511,787 USD Coin and 46.615776 Bitcoin in Folkvang Ltd. v. Valorte Capital at the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands.

Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in Daniel Jaiyong An v. Rafael Cosman, Alex de Lorraine, Tom Shields, and Archblock Inc., formerly known as TrustLabs Inc., at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

Complaint in Daniel Jaiyong An v. Rafael Cosman, Alex de Lorraine, Tom Shields, and Archblock Inc., formerly known as TrustLabs Inc., at the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware.

First Amended Complaint in Digital Monetization LLC v. Uphold HQ Inc., described as "a digital currency money platform with seven million customers", at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging fraud in Federal Trade Commission v. Celsius Network Inc., Celsius Network LLC, Celsius Networks Lending LLC, Celsius Lending LLC, Celsius KeyFi LLC, Celsius Mining LLC, Celsius US Holding LLC, Celsius US LLC, Celsius Management Corp., Alexander Mashinsky, Shlomi Daniel Leon, and Hanoch 'Nuke' Goldstein at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging fraud in U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission v. Celsius Network LLC, a Delaware company based in New Jersey, and Alexander Mashinsky at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint alleging securities fraud in U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission v. Celsius Network Limited, of England, and Alexander Mashinsky at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in FTX Trading Ltd., of Antigua and Barbuda, and Maclaurin Investments Ltd., formerly Alameda Ventures Ltd., of Seychelles v. Lorem Ipsum UG, of Germany; Patrick Gruhn, Robin Matzke, a resident of Germany, and Brandon Williams at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Complaint alleging the defendant "defrauded Mr. Tran of virtual currency worth approximately $916,453.67 through the website “ccfoxbp.vip" in Kim Tran v. John Doe, a.k.a. ccfoxbp.vip, at the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas.

Amended Complaint in William McGreevy, Ashwin Gowda, Translunar Crypto LP, Christopher Buttenham, and Remo Maria Morone v. Digital Currency Group Inc., Barry Silbert, Glenn Hutchins, Lawrence Lenihan, Michael Kraines, Mark Murphy, Soichiro 'Michael' Moro, Derar Islim, and Matthew Ballensweig at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Criminal Indictment alleging fraud involving crypto group Celsius Network in USA v. Alexander Mashinsky and Roni Cohen-Pavon at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in Celsius Network Ltd., of England v. StakeHound SA, of Switzerland, at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

Complaint in BlockFi International Ltd., of Bermuda v. Vrai Nom Investment Limitede, of Hong Kong, at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of New Jersey.

Criminal Indictment alleging the defendant "orchestrated and executed a scheme to fraudulently obtain approximately $9 million worth of cryptocurrency from a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange" in USA v. Shakeeb Ahmed at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Petition to Confirm Arbitration Award in Foris Dax Inc., d.b.a. Crypto.com v. James Deutero McJunkins, Jr. at the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida.

Motion for Temporary Restraining Order in Sergey Gaponyuk v. Evgeny Alferov, described as a citizen of Ukraine; Sergey Gaponyuk, described as a citizen of Ukraine; Sergei Kolosovskii, Mihail Vershinin, Alexander Chernov, David Brown, and Natalia Abramova at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.

Complaint in Sergey Gaponyuk v. Evgeny Alferov, described as a citizen of Ukraine; Sergey Gaponyuk, described as a citizen of Ukraine; Sergei Kolosovskii, Mihail Vershinin, Alexander Chernov, David Brown, and Natalia Abramova at the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.