{"id":632502,"date":"2026-07-21T05:30:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=832534"},"modified":"2026-07-21T05:30:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T05:30:28","slug":"taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/21\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Court Jails Cointhink Fraud Leader for 22 Years After USDT Scheme Hit 1,539 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Judicial Building in Taichung, Taiwan\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A Taiwan court sentenced the leader of a major crypto fraud ring, a man surnamed Shih, to 22 years in prison. In total, 14 people were indicted. Deceptive Credentials Exploited Victims The mastermind of a major cryptocurrency scam operating under the name Cointhink Technology has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after a network [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Taiwan court sentenced the leader of a major crypto fraud ring, a man surnamed Shih, to 22 years in prison. In total, 14 people were indicted. Deceptive Credentials Exploited Victims The mastermind of a major cryptocurrency scam operating under the name Cointhink Technology has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after a network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":632503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-632502","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\/632502","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=632502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}