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ForkLog 17 17.03.2021

Ex-BitMEX CEO Hayes agrees to voluntary surrender to U.S. authorities

Lawyers for Arthur Hayes, the former BitMEX chief executive, have agreed with U.S. authorities on his voluntary surrender and bail.

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ForkLog 19 17.03.2021

Eighteen-year-old Twitter hacker sentenced to three years in prison and three years of supervised release

Graham Clarke, who orchestrated the July 2020 Twitter hack, will serve three years in prison with a subsequent three-year period of supervised release following a plea deal with prosecutors, according to Tampa Bay Times.

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ForkLog 17 16.03.2021

Court frees BitMEX co-founder on $20 million bond

BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo voluntarily surrendered to U.S. authorities. On March 15, he appeared remotely before a court on charges of violating the Bank Secrecy Act, according to Bloomberg.

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ForkLog 35 12.03.2021

SEC Seeks Ripple Executives’ Personal Financial Information

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking information on the personal financial dealings of two Ripple executives in connection with a lawsuit over unregistered XRP token sales totaling $1.3 billion.

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ForkLog 11 12.03.2021

Romanian barber charged with $620,000 cryptocurrency theft

Romania's Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Terrorism arrested a Craiova resident on suspicion of hacking the seventh-largest cryptocurrency operator in the world, based in the Cayman Islands.

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ForkLog 21 11.03.2021

Mt. Gox creditors urged to drop lawsuit in favour of recovery plan

Former Mt. Gox chief executive Mark Karpeles opposed the class-certification procedure in a suit brought by one of the platform's creditors, arguing the recovery plan is more favorable to the creditor. CoinDesk reports.

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ForkLog 13 11.03.2021

French court to hear appeal in Alexander Vinnik case

A court in Paris will begin hearing the appeal in the case of Russian national Alexander Vinnik, who was found guilty of money laundering.

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ForkLog 35 11.03.2021

Japanese court has, for the first time, imprisoned a Bitcoin holder for tax evasion

A 56-year-old resident of Komatsu, Hideji Matsuda, was sentenced to one year in prison and a fine of 22 million yen (over $202,000) for concealing income from cryptocurrency trading. The case marks the first such ruling in the country's jurisprudence, local media reported.

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ForkLog 36 10.03.2021

SEC accuses Ripple of distracting the court with untenable defence arguments

In a letter addressed to Judge Analisa Torres, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said Ripple is seeking to avoid liability for an unregistered securities offering by distracting the court with defence arguments about the vagueness of securities-law standards.

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ForkLog 18 10.03.2021

Brad Garlinghouse and Ripple settle lawsuit against YouTube

Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse said that he and the company have reached a settlement with YouTube over the lawsuit filed against the video-sharing platform in 2020.

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ForkLog 22 08.03.2021

John McAfee says US fraud and money-laundering charges are ‘overblown’

Entrepreneur John McAfee said the U.S. authorities' fraud and money-laundering charges were exaggerated.

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ForkLog 26 07.03.2021

Ripple wins court case against investor

Ripple Labs repelled a bid by British investment firm Tetragon Financial Group to buy out its stake in the fintech company, Bloomberg reports.

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