Overview Austria’s former real-estate heavyweight René Benko and his wife Nathalie Benko are now confronting a second criminal indictment for alleged fraudulent bankruptcy (betrügerische Krida). Prosecutors…
Introduction Venezuela, home to one of the largest oil deposits on the planet, is no longer limiting its crude exports to traditional dollar transactions. Under the…
Overview Austria’s appeals court has once more halted the handover of Ukrainian businessman Dmytro Firtash to the United States, effectively closing a case that has dragged…
Bitcoin wallets that touch certain privacy tools are increasingly being flagged as high-risk by exchanges and blockchain analytics providers – even where there is no proven…
New Regulatory Compliance Analysis Released The Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit (EFIU) has issued a landmark typology report on nested services within virtual asset exchanges, reinforcing years…
Overview: Fake AML Teams Targeting Crypto Users A new whistleblower report illustrates how aggressively so-called “recovery funds” and bogus AML departments are going after crypto holders.…
Overview Austrian businessman Bernd Bergmair accumulated substantial wealth while remaining largely invisible behind the corporate layers of MindGeek, the former parent company of Pornhub. As survivors…
Introduction: Politics, MiCA, and a “Repeat Offender” Viennese lawyer and long-standing Social Democratic (SPÖ) networker Oliver Stauber has travelled an unusual path: from running a Social…
1. Overview of the Acquisition U.S.-based crypto exchange Kraken has signed an agreement to acquire Backed Finance AG, a Swiss–Jersey tokenization specialist behind the rapidly expanding…
Overview After an investigative report by Scam-Or Project into Coin Sonic UAB, the offshore casino operator behind SlotsDynamite and SlotsAmigo has quietly switched payment facilitators. Its…
