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According to DL News, David Balland, co-founder of the French company Ledger, was kidnapped by a criminal gang in January 2025. The assailants cut off his fingers and demanded a ransom of $11.5 million in Bitcoin. After the incident, the police acted quickly, rescuing Balland and his partner, and arrested 10 suspects at the scene, but one suspect escaped to Spain amid the chaos. After weeks of joint pursuit by the police of both countries, the suspect was eventually captured in Benalmádena, Spain.Currently, the Fuengirola court is advancing the extradition process based on the European Arrest Warrant agreement, and French authorities have confirmed that they have identified and arrested all individuals involved.

According to CBC News, 21-year-old Canadian fugitive Andean Medjedovic is suspected of stealing a total of $65 million in assets from the platforms Indexed Finance and KyberSwap through hacking.Medjedovic was arrested in Belgrade, Serbia, in August 2024, but was released after a Serbian court rejected the Netherlands' extradition request. Documents from the U.S. Department of Justice indicate that he may have fled to Bosnia and is currently missing.Medjedovic previously exploited his mathematical and programming talents to attack Indexed Finance at the age of 18, profiting $16.5 million, and later attacked KyberSwap in 2023, earning $48 million. Medjedovic used a fake Slovak passport and has traveled through multiple countries including Brazil, Dubai, and Spain. The U.S. Department of Justice has accused him of using mixers like Tornado Cash for money laundering.

According to CCTV News, recently, the head of a major cross-border gambling and fraud crime group, Chen Zhi, was legally escorted back to the country from Cambodia. Chen Zhi's criminal group is suspected of multiple crimes including fraud, operating casinos, illegal business operations, and concealing criminal proceeds. The case is currently under investigation. In order to implement a criminal policy that balances leniency and severity, and to legally punish gambling and fraud crimes while providing an opportunity for fugitives to reform and seek leniency, the following announcement is made in accordance with relevant legal provisions:From the date of this announcement until February 15, 2026, if criminal suspects voluntarily surrender to the public security organs and truthfully confess their crimes, they may receive a lighter or reduced punishment according to the law. Those who threaten, retaliate against, or obstruct suspects intending to surrender will be held criminally responsible according to the law. The public security organs urge relevant criminal suspects to recognize the situation, cherish the opportunity, and promptly surrender to the public security organs at their place of household registration to seek leniency. Those who refuse to surrender will be publicly wanted, and efforts will be made to capture them and punish them according to the law.

The Indian Ministry of Finance stated in a written response to Parliament that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) of India has seized, frozen, or confiscated assets totaling approximately ₹41,898.9 crore in multiple crypto-related cases under the Anti-Money Laundering Act, and has arrested 29 individuals and filed 22 charges, with one suspect officially designated as an "economic fugitive."At the same time, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) of India has uncovered approximately ₹8,888.2 crore in undisclosed income during its search and seizure operations related to Virtual Digital Assets (VDA), and has issued notices to 40,057 taxpayers who did not provide VDA information in their income tax returns. The Ministry of Finance stated that crypto assets in India are currently unregulated, and the government is advancing capacity building to strengthen the monitoring and investigation of VDA transactions, emphasizing that crypto assets have cross-border attributes, and any effective regulatory framework will require extensive international cooperation in areas such as risk assessment and classification standards.

According to Caixin, Singapore's largest money laundering case fugitive Su Binghai had approximately 260 million yuan in assets confiscated in the UK, including nine apartments in London (about 140 million yuan) and dinosaur fossils (about 116 million yuan).The case involves 3 billion Singapore dollars (about 16 billion yuan), and another suspect, Wang Shuiming, has been arrested in Montenegro. Partner Su Weiyi is accused of being the mastermind behind the Hong Kong crypto platform Atom Asset Exchange scam.

ChainCatcher news, according to Protos, a 60-year-old cryptocurrency fugitive was arrested in Seoul on August 22, 2025, for allegedly defrauding $13 million in cryptocurrency. The man was stopped by the police for throwing away a cigarette and attempted to evade further questioning by bribing them.The police intercepted the man in the Gwanak District of Seoul, where he pleaded with officers to let him go while trying to hail a taxi. He refused to hand over his ID and attempted to flee, ultimately being apprehended. Investigations revealed that he was involved in a cryptocurrency scam amounting to 17.7 billion won (approximately $12.6 million) between 2018 and 2019, affecting around 1,300 victims.Currently, the man faces 10 charges including assault and fraud, and has been on the run since 2020; he is now detained by the Southern District Prosecutors' Office in Seoul.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, a 42-year-old British woman Jian Wen was found guilty by a jury in London for helping a Chinese fugitive launder money in a nearly $6 billion investment fraud case from 2017 to 2022.It is reported that Jian Wen was convicted of one count of money laundering, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on two other charges. Jian Wen is scheduled to be sentenced on May 10.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Chifeng Public Security WeChat account, the Economic Investigation Team of the Public Security Bureau of Yuanbao District, Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, successfully persuaded two economic crime suspects who had fled to surrender. It is reported that in November 2022, the Public Security Bureau of Yuanbao District received a report from the public stating that they had downloaded and used a virtual currency platform in a WeChat group and were defrauded of 5,600 yuan on that platform. After receiving the report, the police conducted a preliminary analysis and believed that the platform was suspected of using virtual currency to engage in pyramid scheme activities. Investigation revealed that this virtual currency platform was based in Beijing, had a nationwide reach, a tightly organized structure, and novel criminal methods. By the time the case occurred, the total number of registered members on the platform had exceeded 18,000, involving 13 provinces and cities, with a transaction volume exceeding 2 billion yuan.In May 2023, after careful planning, the bureau organized over a hundred police officers to carry out a synchronized crackdown in cooperation with police in Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and other locations, resulting in the arrest of 30 suspects, the seizure and freezing of virtual currencies worth approximately 10 million yuan involved in the case, and the confiscation of several tools used in the crime. With strong support and assistance from the Economic Investigation General Team of the Public Security Department and the Economic Investigation Detachment of the Municipal Bureau, the Economic Investigation Team of the bureau successfully persuaded two economic crime suspects who had fled to surrender. Currently, the related cases are under further investigation.