U.S. prosecutors filed five civil-forfeiture complaints seeking approximately $26.4 million in cryptocurrency linked to international fraud, including investment and romance scams, with launderers primarily in Southeast Asia. The process aims to freeze assets and eventually repay victims, though final disposition is pending.
U.S. prosecutors seized over $25 million in cryptocurrency linked to international romance and investment scams that defrauded thousands in the U.S. and Canada. The Justice Department's Scam Center Strike Force, launched in November 2025, recovered the funds.
The US Department of Justice filed five civil forfeiture complaints seeking over $25 million in crypto linked to international investment, romance, and recovery scams. Investigations by the Cyber Fraud Task Force identified thousands of victims in the US and Canada, with launderers primarily in Southeast Asia.
The BCCI has adopted rule changes recommended by the MCC for its 2026-27 domestic season, including completing the final over of the day despite a wicket fall, stricter penalties for deliberate no-balls, and new guidelines for declarations and field placements.
A US prisoner serving time for money laundering allegedly moved $290,000 in cryptocurrency in January 2024 after a court ordered the assets forfeited, highlighting a gap in government control over digital assets.
Rossen Iossifov, a Bulgarian national already serving a federal prison sentence, has been charged with conspiring to withdraw and launder approximately $290,000 in crypto assets from a Kraken account subject to a forfeiture order. The alleged actions occurred in January 2024, after a federal court had ordered the forfeiture following his 2021 conviction for racketeering and money laundering.
Lord Ranger, a British Indian Tory peer, is suing the UK government in the High Court over the revocation of his CBE. He claims the decision, advised by PM Keir Starmer, was unlawful and violated his freedom of expression rights.
The US Supreme Court upheld the FCC's system for levying fines against wireless carriers AT&T and Verizon. The 8-1 ruling rejected the companies' argument that the agency's in-house proceedings violated their right to a jury trial.
When Law Yin-ping moved into a village house in Yick Yuen Tsuen in northwest Hong Kong’s Lam Tei more than a decade ago with her granddaughters, it never crossed her mind that they could one day be rendered homeless – and forcibly separated. The Tuen Mun village falls within the government’s planned Hung Shui Kiu/Ha Tsuen New Development Area, which is set to become a high-end professional services and logistics hub under the Northern Metropolis megaproject. Law, who is nearly 70, said on Sunday...
When Law Yin-ping moved into a village house in Yick Yuen Tsuen, Hung Shui Kiu, in northwest Hong Kong more than a decade ago with her granddaughters, it never crossed her mind that they could one day be homeless – and forcibly separated. The Tuen Mun village falls within the government’s planned Hung Shui Kiu/Ha Tsuen New Development Area, which is set to become a high-end professional services and logistics hub under the Northern Metropolis megaproject. Law, who is nearly 70, said on Sunday...
