The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has turned up the heat on a multi-national cryptocurrency fraud ring that allegedly swindled over a quarter of a billion dollars from victims worldwide.
The charges, filed under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), bring the total number of defendants in the case to 27.
At the centre of the investigation is 20-year-old Malone Lam, accused of orchestrating one of the largest individual cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history – allegedly