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Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that is not part of  Cryptonews.com  editorial content.

The United States Justice Department announced on March 15 that it was pressing charges against a resident of Hanoi, Vietnam, in connection to the operation of the ChipMixer. The announcement came shortly after it became known that a Europol action led by German law enforcement had closed down the Vietnam-based crypto mixer.

Shiba Inu price appears to have taken a breather after a consistent push by bulls for slightly over two weeks. This pressure is not unique to SHIB, as Bitcoin price is down 2.2% in 24 hours to trade at $20,796, while Ethereum price is exchanging hands at $1,527 after sliding 3.3%. The most popular meme coin, DOGE is also in the red and trading at $0.081 after a 5.5% correction in 24 hours.

On January 18th, Bitcoin began to experience a bearish correction. It obtained support close to $20,500 and its trend seems sustainable. In this article, you will find the latest information regarding BTC and ETH's fundamental outlook and more. Read ahead for additional details!

Bitzlato processed more than $700 million in illegal funds, from activities including drug deals, illegal gambling, and ransomware attacks, according to the US Justice Department.The US, alongside several European partners, has also acted to seize Bitzlato’s servers and cryptocurrency, effectively shutting the exchange down.Deputy Attorney General Lisa O Monaco says: "Overnight, the Department worked with key partners here and abroad to disrupt Bitzlato, the China-based money laundering engine that fueled a high-tech axis of cryptocrime, and to arrest its founder, Russian national Anatoly Legkodymov. "Today’s actions send the clear message: whether you break our laws from China or Europe - or abuse our financial system from a tropical island - you can expect to answer for your crimes inside a United States courtroom."Legkodymov is charged with conducting an unlicensed money transmitting business.

The United States Department of Justice is expected to announce a “major international cryptocurrency enforcement action.”

German car manufacturer BMW plans to integrate blockchain technology into its daily operations and create a blockchain loyalty program for its customers in Thailand. The popular carmaker has onboarded blockchain infrastructure firm Coinweb as its decentralized architecture provider and BNB Chain for settling transactions.

Russian billionaire Vyacheslav Taran, president of Libertex Group and founder of Forex Club, died Nov. 25 in a helicopter crash in France while en route from Lausanne to Monaco, Switzerland. He was 53. The helicopter pilot, the only other person aboard the craft, also died.

Here is the story of how Queen Elizabeth II's funeral unfolded on Monday. 

When Janet Yellen was invited to join the likes of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Albert of Monaco as one of only 100 individual members of the prestigious Club de Monte-Carlo, she felt she had to decline.

A former Serious Fraud Office lawyer was unfairly dismissed after he allegedly insulted a US Federal Bureau of Investigations agent in a London pub, a tribunal ruled.

The United States Department of Justice has seized and returned roughly $500,000 in fiat and crypto from a hacking group tied to the North Korean government, which included two crypto payments made by U.S. health care providers.

Cointelegraph's editor-in-chief Kristina Cornèr interviewed Bybit founder Ben Zhou at the Formula 1 Grand Prix at Monaco, discussing topics like educating newcomers in crypto, the effects of the Terra (LUNA) — now known as Luna Classic (LUNC) — debacle on institutional interest and the survival of Bitcoin (BTC) amid new developments in the industry. 

Crypto has taken over the world, and Formula One was no exception to the disruption. From NFTs and fan tokens to multi-year partnerships, the crypto community continues to support the F1 landscape in numerous ways.

Confusion reigns as reports in the international press have variously claimed that the Central African Republic (CAR) has “adopted bitcoin (BTC)” as “legal tender” – while other media outlets appear to suggest that the country has actually done nothing of the sort, and instead approved a legal framework that will legalize the use of crypto within the country.

Football club AS Monaco has announced a partnership with Capital Block to develop NFTs

The UK’s criminal probe into Unaoil Group further unraveled, after a London appeals court on 24 March overturned the bribery conviction of an executive who had worked for a client of the oil-services consulting firm.

On Feb. 17, United States Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced at the Munich Cyber Security Conference the formation of the new task force “dedicated to cryptocurrency” within the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Coming four months after the launch of the Justice Department’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET), this marks another major step in the U.S. government’s crusade against criminal abuse of cryptocurrencies. 

FBI is launching a unit for blockchain analysis and virtual asset seizure. The creation of the FBI's «virtual asset exploitation» unit comes after the Justice Department's largest-ever financial seizure earlier this month. It charged a married New York couple with allegedly laundering bitcoins now valued at over $4.5 billion that were stolen in the 2016 hack of the digital currency exchange Bitfinex. U.S. regulators under President Joe Biden have been ratcheting up their scrutiny of the crypto industry in the wake of a series of high-profile cyberattacks last year on the largest U.S. fuel pipeline network and the world's largest beef supplier. Ransomware groups often demand their fees in bitcoin.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Thursday, Feb. 17, that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is forming a new specialized team dedicated to tackling growing cryptocurrency crimes.