Ukraine: Four Arrested for Operating Fake Crypto Exchanges

Police ukrainian has arrested a group of four men suspected of handling six false cryptocurrency exchanges, Bleeping Computer informed The 21st of June.

Four men between 20 and 26 years of age allegedly launched at least six digital exchange exchanges, in which they deceived users and subsequently stole money. The alleged culprits attracted users by promoting exchanges with false positive ratings and online reviews. Reportedly, the police said that the suspects had "special knowledge and skills in the field of programming" and "have created their own CMS system to manage the content of the exchange sites." During the search of the houses of the suspects, the police allegedly seized computers, USB sticks, smart phones and other devices. According to a spokesperson of the National Police of Ukraine, "the list of sites is not complete". Now the authorities are asking users to provide information about whether they were previously deceived by fraudulent exchanges. Yesterday, the Securities and Exchange Commission from U.S He received another emergency court order to freeze the assets of Dominic Lacroix, owner of PlexCorps. Lacroix and his partner, Sabrina Paradis-Royer, were accused of violating the law of values ​​with respect to the initial offer of coins of PlexCoin carried out by PlexCorps in August of last year. Reportedly, the ICO raised $ 15 million from "thousands of investors."

Earlier this month, Cointelegraph informed that a Bitcoin merchant in Los Angeles, California, was facing a lawsuit for allegedly running an unregistered multimillion dollar money transfer business Bitcoin -fiat. It is said that the defendant Theresa Tetley, 50, earned at least $ 300,000 per year from her business on the black market, which ran between 2014 and 2017 through a list on localbitcoins.com.