A federal jury in South Carolina convicted Demani and Tanya Bosket this week in a transnational email-compromise ring that drained more than $25 million from people in the middle of the largest transactions of their lives. The pitch was not a pitch. It was a forwarded thread.
A corner money exchange in East Ham was not what it looked like. Behind the counter, prosecutors say, sat one of the doorways into a £190 million global laundering pipeline. This week, the door closed.
Federal prosecutors say two men in the Republic of Georgia ran a Bitcoin laundering service called AudiA6 for almost five years, washing ransomware payouts and dark web revenue through 10,333 transactions. The arrests happened on a Wednesday. The machine had been running since 2021.
A Canadian teenager pleaded guilty in Miami to laundering $13M in stolen Bitcoin after impersonating Google support to drain a victim's wallet. The traffic stop that ended it started with a white Rolls-Royce.
The Enforcement Directorate arrested Karuturi Venkateshwara Rao on June 2 in a ₹899 crore ($108M USD) bank fraud case that allegedly ran for fifteen years inside the books of a Bengaluru cable company. The machine was not the cable. It was the paperwork.
For nearly two years, a gang moved an estimated £30 million in criminal cash out of Manchester, Birmingham, and Brussels on Emirates flights to Dubai. The lock on the door was a 34-year-old check-in attendant who waved the overweight bags through.