Cryptocurrency tracing has become a key tool for police investigating everything from fraud and ransomware to child abuse. This week, we reported on new court filings from the legal team representing Roman Sterlingov, who’s been in jail for 15 months, accused of laundering $336 million in cryptocurrency as the alleged owner and operator of dark-web crypto mixer Bitcoin Fog. Elsewhere, …
The Supreme Court on Friday, December 16, ordered a stay on the inquiry into the Pegasus snooping case by the Justice Lokur Commission set up by the West Bengal government. The SC was hearing a petition by an NGO that had earlier challenged the inquiry commission set up by the West Bengal government. The Mamata Banerjee-led Bengal government had set …