Category: Sentences

  • Crypto Price Manipulation and Securities Fraud Lead to Two Prison Sentences

    Two men have been sentenced for manipulating the price of Hydrogen Technology’s cryptocurrency, HYDRO, and plotting to defraud investors. This case marks the first time a jury in a federal criminal trial has classified a cryptocurrency as a security and found that cryptocurrency price manipulation constitutes securities fraud. $300 Million…

  • Crypto Price Manipulation and Securities Fraud Lead to Two Prison Sentences

    Two men have been sentenced for manipulating the price of Hydrogen Technology’s cryptocurrency, HYDRO, and plotting to defraud investors. This case marks the first time a jury in a federal criminal trial has classified a cryptocurrency as a security and found that cryptocurrency price manipulation constitutes securities fraud. $300 Million…

  • Court Sentences Gang For Exploiting Digital Yuan In Money Laundering Scheme

    In a groundbreaking legal case, a criminal gang in China has been found guilty of organizing a complex money laundering operation that leveraged the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan or e-CNY. The complex scheme, revealed by the People’s Procuratorate of Yueqing District in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province,…

  • Court Sentences Gang For Exploiting Digital Yuan In Money Laundering Scheme

    In a groundbreaking legal case, a criminal gang in China has been found guilty of organizing a complex money laundering operation that leveraged the country’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), the digital yuan or e-CNY. The complex scheme, revealed by the People’s Procuratorate of Yueqing District in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province,…