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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Being litigated many years after they happened, such as the OneCoin Ponzi scheme that took place between 2014 and 2016.The project’s former attorney was jailed for four years back in April. Another accomplice was sentenced to 10 years — and ordered to forfeit $392 million along with a yacht, two Porsches and four properties.But there’s one person who’s proven incredibly elusive since OneCoin collapsed like a house of cards: “Cryptoqueen” Ruja Ignatova.She’s been on the run for over seven years, but is still being sought after defrauding customers out of $4.5 billion. The U.S. is now offering a $5 million reward for information that leads to her capture, but reports this year suggested Ignatova may have been murdered.6. Bitfinex Launderers JailedAnother long-running case that came to a conclusion this year related to the notorious hack of Bitfinex in 2016.Husband-and-wife duo Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan were sentenced after admitting to laundering billions of stolen Bitcoin.The crypto stash was worth $4.5 billion at the time of their arrest — with a record-breaking $3.6 billion recovered by U.S. officials — but this BTC now has a substantially higher value.Lichtenstein received a five-year prison term for what was described as “the most complicated money laundering techniques” ever investigated by the Internal Revenue Service.Morgan — an amateur rapper known as “Razzlekhan” who referred to herself as “The Crocodile of Wall Street” — was sentenced to 18 months.The story’s now been turned into a Netflix documentary, while the laptop that brought down the duo is
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