{"id":31285,"date":"2020-11-05T09:47:15","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T07:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=31285"},"modified":"2025-08-28T02:54:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T23:54:35","slug":"u-s-authorities-seize-24-million-in-cryptocurrency-from-alleged-organiser-of-brazil-based-fraud-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/u-s-authorities-seize-24-million-in-cryptocurrency-from-alleged-organiser-of-brazil-based-fraud-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. authorities seize $24 million in cryptocurrency from alleged organiser of Brazil-based fraud scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice has seized $24 million in cryptocurrency from an alleged organiser of a fraud scheme in Brazil. This, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/us-seizes-virtual-currencies-valued-24-million-assisting-brazil-major-internet-fraud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u0433\u043e\u0432\u043e\u0440\u0438\u0442\u0441\u044f<\/a> in a department press release.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The seizure was carried out at the request of Brazilian authorities under a mutual legal assistance treaty. According to law enforcement officials, Marcos Antonio Fagundes ran the fraud scheme: investors were invited to put their funds into cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in August, the U.S. Department of Justice <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/us-to-seize-cryptocurrency-from-north-korea-linked-accounts\">filed<\/a> a cryptocurrency-forfeiture action tied to 280 accounts. The department says they are linked to attacks carried out by North Korean hackers.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Justice has seized $24 million in cryptocurrency from an alleged organiser of a fraud scheme in Brazil. This is stated in the department&#8217;s press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31286,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1153,1154,26],"class_list":["post-31285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-confiscation","tag-crimes","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31287,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31285\/revisions\/31287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}