On this early morning of Monday April 11, 2022, the suspense is at its height in the financial crime services of Bordeaux.
Nearly 5,000 kilometers away, the Israeli police, thanks to information provided by France, Turkey and Portugal, are about to arrest, in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, six people suspected of laundering twelve million euros, based on a cryptocurrency scam.
“The arrest was a success, after two years of relentless tracking,
says one of the Bordeaux investigators.
These scammers of Franco-Israeli origin will have succeeded in pushing five hundred French victims to invest, without knowing it, their money on fake crypto platforms: generalcrypto.net, Boursebitcoin.com, lacentraledescryptomannaies.
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With the stolen money, the criminals bought gold in Turkey on behalf of a Jerusalem-based jeweler.
First used by cybercriminals in scams and ransomware cases, digital assets, such as bitcoins or Ether, are now manipulated by…
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