Thousands of protesters marched in El Salvador's capital for several days last week in response to the government's decision to declare bitcoin legal tender alongside the US dollar.

Italian Mafia groups, particularly ‘Ndrangheta, the country’s strongest and most powerful criminal syndicate, are growing more and more attuned to modern tools like cryptocurrency and the deep web, the Italian Anti-Mafia Directorate (DIA) said in their latest report covering the first half of 2020. 

The U.K.'s Metropolitan Police said on Tuesday that it seized US$250 million worth of cryptocurrency, breaking a record set just three weeks prior for the largest crypto seizure in the country and most likely in the world.

In the latest crackdown on cryptocurrency fraud, China said last week that it rounded up more than 1,100 suspects and dismantled over 170 criminal groups believed to have used virtual currencies to provide money transfer and laundering services for telenetwork scams.

Turkish authorities arrested 68 suspected members of a group accused of stealing over US$2 billion from investors through a cryptocurrency trading platform whose founder fled the country and is now on an Interpol wanted list.

Cybercriminals robbed victims of almost US$4 billion across 122 attacks against cryptocurrency platforms and holdings last year, according to a recent report.

A court in the United States has sentenced a Bulgarian national for his role in a multi-million dollar cyber-fraud and money laundering racket, according to astatement from the Department of Justice.

A French court has sentenced a Russian national believed to have masterminded a fraudulent cryptocurrency operation that allegedly laundered more than US$9 billion for international organized crime groups.

Acting on request of the government of Brazil, U.S. authorities seized virtual currency worth an estimated US$24 million which Brazilian authorities claim are proceeds of a fraudulent scheme, theJustice Department announced Wednesday.

A U.S. court found a Bulgarian national and owner of a Bitcoin exchange guilty for his role in an international fraud scheme that lured at least 900 Americans into purchasing online items that didn’t exist, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

In the latest instalment of a saga that saw investors around the world defrauded out of as much as US$16 billion, the co-founder of a disgraced cryptocurrency firm has agreed to testify against the company’s one-time chief, his sister.

Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have brought fraud charges against the co-founder of a cryptocurrency scheme that allegedly defrauded would-be investors of as much as US$16 billion, but experts warn there is still a long way to go before justice is brought to the victims of the scam.