{"id":559246,"date":"2026-02-22T03:30:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=793637"},"modified":"2026-02-22T03:30:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T03:30:52","slug":"100m-crypto-laundering-bust-reveals-81-bank-accounts-and-offshore-transfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/22\/100m-crypto-laundering-bust-reveals-81-bank-accounts-and-offshore-transfers\/","title":{"rendered":"$100M Crypto Laundering Bust Reveals 81 Bank Accounts and Offshore Transfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/fbi-busts-crypto-fraud-operation-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"$100M Crypto Laundering Bust Reveals 81 Bank Accounts and Offshore Transfers\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Nearly $100 million in investor funds was funneled through shell companies, offshore accounts, and major cryptocurrency exchanges in a sweeping federal money laundering case, underscoring risks and red flags crypto investors cannot afford to ignore. Federal Crackdown Uncovers $100 Million Crypto Laundering Operation Financial fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency continue to draw federal enforcement action. The [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly $100 million in investor funds was funneled through shell companies, offshore accounts, and major cryptocurrency exchanges in a sweeping federal money laundering case, underscoring risks and red flags crypto investors cannot afford to ignore. Federal Crackdown Uncovers $100 Million Crypto Laundering Operation Financial fraud schemes involving cryptocurrency continue to draw federal enforcement action. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":559247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-559246","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559246","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=559246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}