Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
Ilya “Dutch” Lichtenstein — the Russian-born U.S. citizen who admitted involvement in laundering billions tied to the 2016 Bitfinex bitcoin hack — announced on January 2, 2026, that he was released from U.S. federal custody after serving only ~14 months of a five-year sentence. He publicly credited “President Trump’s First Step Act,” fueling a fresh narrative that crypto-era crime is now colliding with crypto-era politics.
Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison is expected to walk free from federal custody around 21 January 2026, after serving roughly 14 months of a two‑year sentence for her central role in the FTX/Alameda fraud complex. Her early release is a direct consequence of extensive cooperation with prosecutors against FTX founder Sam Bankman‑Fried and other insiders.
Vienna's judicial peculiarities have struck again. After nearly twelve years of legal wrangling, Austrian courts have now ordered the repayment of Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash's record €125 million bail—a belated Christmas present that raises uncomfortable questions about the integrity of Austria's extradition procedures.
The compliance intelligence platform FinTelegram is requesting information on the payment processor GammaG (www.gammag.ge), discovered as a hidden gateway in the "Vegadreams" casino scheme. According to their investigations the offshore casino Vegadreams, operated by Starscream Limited (St. Lucia), is using a previously unknown Georgian payment interface named GammaG to process cryptocurrency deposits.
Argentina’s economic-crime prosecutors have reportedly imputed U.S. magnate Foster Gillett and businessman Guillermo Tofoni in a suspected money-laundering case linked to football transfers and promised “private investment” structures around clubs. Investigators are now lifting secrecy protections and tracing the origin, routing, and end-use of funds tied to the transfer market.
The U.S. artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe published a so-called ‘deepfake‘ video to Instagram in which Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave a sinister speech about the power of Facebook and praised the artists’ Spectre project.
Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people’s stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures […] I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data, controls the future.”
Mark Zuckderberg praising Spectre in the deepfake video
Spectre is a fictitious secret organization as well as the title of a James Bond franchise. The story sees Bond fighting against the global criminal organization and their leader Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In fact, the “Deepfake Zuckerberg” would fit well into this Spectre.
The video was seen as a test of Facebook’s policy that allows manipulated video on its sites, like the one recently posted of Nancy Pelosi, which had been edited to slur her.
The original, real video was published in September 2017. Zuckerberg gave an address about Russian election interference on Facebook. The caption of the Instagram post says it’s created using CannyAI’s video dialogue replacement (VDR) technology.
