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June 29, 2026
The family of a missionary who was kidnapped and murdered by North Korean agents is seeking to collect over $232 million from blockchain company Circle after the stablecoin issuer allegedly failed to freeze funds linked to North Korean hackers amid the April Fools' Day exploit of crypto project Drift Protocol.
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June 29, 2026
A suit filed in New York federal court Monday alleges a group of unknown traders carried out a $100 million insider trading scheme tied to a Reuters report and other disclosures about a Chinese regulatory crackdown on cross-border securities platforms.
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June 29, 2026
Exiled Chinese businessman and dissident Miles Guo on Monday was sentenced to 30 years in prison, after a Manhattan federal jury convicted him of defrauding investors of more than $1.4 billion in connection with what prosecutors described as a "fraud empire."
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June 29, 2026
The Federal Circuit on Monday refused to back cryptocurrency mining company Core Scientific Inc.'s bid to move a case accusing it of infringing cryptography patents to the Western District of Texas, rejecting Core's arguments that it had clearly shown a transfer was necessary and that a magistrate judge had committed legal errors in disagreeing.
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June 29, 2026
China-based brokerage firm operator Futu Holdings Ltd. has been hit with a proposed shareholder class action in New York federal court accusing it of concealing risks associated with its noncompliance with Chinese securities laws, causing company shares to fall by nearly a third of their value when Futu disclosed regulatory shortcomings.
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