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The Justice Department said the sweep that ran from May 2025 to October 2026 was the sixth and most extensive JCODE action since 2018, seizing 5.7 metric tons of drugs and 209 firearms, without saying how much of the money was cryptocurrency.

Swiss and German authorities, backed by Europol, shut down the Cryptomixer bitcoin-laundering service in Zurich, seizing servers, the domain, EUR 25 million in BTC and 12 terabytes of data linked to major cybercrime networks.

Bitcoin is still the preferred cryptocurrency among cybercriminals, according to this year’s Internet Organized Crime Threats Assessment from Europol.

Europol announced an ongoing partnership with international law enforcement from to target buyers and sellers of illegal items on the dark web.

Darknet marketplace Hansa was seized in a multi-agency investigation led by the FBI and the DEA with the support of Europol.

It appears the global fight against Bitcoin money laundering has turned up a notch.Last week, more than 400 financial investigators from money laundering, cybercrime...

Less than a mile from my home, as the Web Summit wrapped up in Dublin's RDS, Gardai (the Irish police) raided an office in the...