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A cloned voice and a fake WhatsApp message from Intesa Sanpaolo's CEO led Fideuram's treasury to wire nearly €95 million to China and Hong Kong in February. Over €53 million has been clawed back, but €39.5 million converted into cryptocurrency remains unrecovered.
A sixth suspect has been charged in Poland's investigation into the collapse of Zondacrypto, formerly BitBay, as investigators search a fuel depot where founder Sylwester Suszek was last seen in 2022.
A Wall Street Journal report says Polymarket was targeted by an attempted fraud worth roughly $10 million while compliance staff warned for months about weak safeguards, as the platform prepares for record trading volume around November's US midterms.
The National Crime Agency has placed crypto assets third on a new nine-point list of economic crime priorities, citing hundreds of billions of pounds in criminal money moving through UK finance and detailing two operations that yielded arrests, seizures and millions in frozen funds.