{"id":553927,"date":"2026-02-10T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/crypto-scam-mastermind-gets-20-years-for-73m-pig-butchering-scheme\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:52:50","slug":"crypto-scam-mastermind-gets-20-years-for-73m-pig-butchering-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/10\/crypto-scam-mastermind-gets-20-years-for-73m-pig-butchering-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto scam mastermind gets 20 years for $73M pig butchering scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crypto<\/p>\n

A US court sentenced Daren Li to 20 years in prison for leading a $73 million crypto pig butchering scam targeting American investors.<\/p>\n

A dual national of China and St. Kitts and Nevis was sentenced to 20 years in US federal prison for orchestrating a global cryptocurrency scam that stole more than $73 million from victims, many of them American investors.<\/p>\n

Daren Li, 42, received the statutory maximum sentence in the Central District of California, along with three years of supervised release, according<\/a> to a statement issued Tuesday by the US Department of Justice (DOJ). Li has been a fugitive since December 2025, after cutting off his electronic ankle monitor and fleeing, the release states.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said Li and at least eight co-conspirators established spoofed domains and websites resembling legitimate trading platforms to promote fraudulent crypto investments after gaining victims\u2019 trust, a scheme known as pig butchering<\/a> or phishing scams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A US court sentenced Daren Li to 20 years in prison for leading a $73 million crypto pig butchering scam targeting American investors. A dual national of China and St. Kitts and Nevis was sentenced to 20 years in US federal prison for orchestrating a global cryptocurrency scam that stole more than $73 million from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":553928,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-553927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}