Scott Bessent said Washington is working with European and Gulf allies to target Iranian financial networks, freeze assets and disrupt funding channels linked to Tehran.
Very recently, the Madras High Court, on 25 October, declared cryptocurrency a ‘property’ of the user. The question for declaring it as a property arose from a recent incident in which an investor, Rhuti Kumar, among other investors, lost savings in WazirX due to a cyberattack on the platform.
The police said that the matter came to light when a 64-year-old man, Suneet Kumar Suri, a resident of Vivek Vihar, was conned into investing Rs 2.25 lakh in a fraudulent scheme.
The Delhi Police on Monday arrested a Ludhiana-based businessman for allegedly duping a man of over Rs 31 lakh by luring him to invest in a fake cryptocurrency trading platform, an official said.
For the first time ever, the bitcoin spiked nearly 3% to cross the $121,000-mark on Monday. The cryptocurrency has more than doubled investors' wealth in one year, gaining over 103% during the period.
In a significant move to dismantle terror financing infrastructure, the State Investigation Agency (SIA) Kashmir on Friday conducted simultaneous search operations across Jammu, Doda, and Handwara, targeting suspected nodes of a cross-border conspiracy involving cryptocurrency-based funding for terrorism, said an SIA spokesman.
The accused have been identified by the cops as Himanshu Baisoya, Avinash Verma, Alok Singh, Garima Singh, Simranjeet Singh, and Kamal Insan.
The global cryptocurrency market continued its strong rally in May 2025, posting a 10.3 per cent month-on-month gain, according to the latest report from Binance Research, the research and analysis arm of Binance.
Shiba Inu (SHIB), a decentralized cryptocurrency, tightened its grip on the charts, flashing a bullish signal.
Reacting to the allegations, Sharad Pawar said, "The person who made the allegations was in jail for several months. Only the BJP can prompt such a person to make false allegations."
