{"id":55599,"date":"2022-01-10T12:26:18","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T10:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55599"},"modified":"2025-09-04T02:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T23:21:24","slug":"brazilian-police-arrest-organizer-of-mirror-trading-international-bitcoin-pyramid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/brazilian-police-arrest-organizer-of-mirror-trading-international-bitcoin-pyramid\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian police arrest organizer of Mirror Trading International Bitcoin pyramid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian military police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goias.gov.br\/servico\/17-politica-de-seguranca\/126517-preso-em-goi%C3%A2nia-criminoso-procurado-pela-interpol.html\">arrested<\/a> the founder and CEO of the Mirror Trading International (MTI) cryptocurrency pyramid, Johann Steynberg, who had been sought by Interpol and the FBI in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement began monitoring the suspect shortly after receiving information about his presence in the city of Goiania.<\/p>\n<p>He was located using forged documents and brought to the Federal Police station in the Brazilian state of Goi\u00e1s.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say MTI defrauded 170,000 investors who entrusted the pyramid with at least 22,000 BTC (about $920 million at the rate at the time of writing). The organisers promised monthly returns of at least 10%.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2021, the Brazilian Federal Police <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/brazilian-police-arrest-local-bitcoin-king-on-300-million-fraud-charges\">shut down the Bitcoin Banco Group, whose actions harmed 7,000 citizens by more than $300 million<\/a>. Its leader, Claudio Oliveira, known as the &#8216;King of Bitcoins&#8217;, was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>In August, the agency <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/brazilian-police-seize-28-7-million-in-cryptocurrency-in-kryptos-operation\">seized cryptocurrency worth 150 million Brazilian reais ($28.7 million) as part of Operation Kryptos<\/a>, linked to the alleged pyramid scheme.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, criminals targeting the cryptocurrency industry stole a record $14 billion, according to the analytics firm Chainalysis.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, rates and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Brazilian military police arrested the founder and CEO of the Mirror Trading International cryptocurrency pyramid, Johann Steynberg, who had been sought by Interpol and the FBI in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1437,1154,1444,1163],"class_list":["post-55599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-brazil","tag-crimes","tag-law-enforcement","tag-ponzi-schemes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"27","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55599","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=55599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55601,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55599\/revisions\/55601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}