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28 February 2024
High Court grants injunctions and summary judgment against unknown fraudsters (Boonyaem v Persons Unknown)
A closer look at Boonyaem v Persons Unknown.
10 January 2024
Beware of false asset recovery agents: CFAAR will never ask for your money
According to statistics published by blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis last year, illicit cryptocurrency-based activity was at an all-time high, with stolen funds through hacks and other phishing methods representing a significant proportion of the overall estimated US$20.6 billion in crypto-related crime globally.
24 May 2023
Binance successfully challenges interim proprietary injunction over deposited cryptoassets
In Piroozzadeh v Persons Unknown and Others [2023] EWHC 1024 (Ch), the cryptocurrency exchange Binance successfully applied to discharge an interim proprietary injunction obtained by a claimant whose misappropriated cryptoassets had been deposited at the exchange. This is the first recorded case of an exchange successfully having discharged such an injunction.
3 April 2023
The Tulip Saga Continues
Are blockchain developers liable as fiduciaries or otherwise to bitcoin owners who use their software?
22 December 2022
The Centralised De-Centralised Crypto-economy
Financial Crash 2008: A Decentralised Vision - In November 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a Bitcoin White Paper setting out the framework for a wholly decentralised peer-to-peer electronic cash system without the need for a financial system.
6 June 2022
CFAAR's Syed Rahman of Rahman Ravelli discusses Ion Science Ltd v Persons Unknown
This case, is particularly significant in terms of crypto-related fraud and asset recovery, for reasons which we explain further down.
12 February 2022
High Court finds that a cryptocurrency exchange arrangement was not a trust
18 December 2021
Blockchain Gaming - The Virtual Assets of The Future
How are cryptocurrencies and virtual assets like non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, being used in the gaming industry and what implications does this have for asset recovery professionals?
14 September 2021
CFAAR founding Member Carmel King discusses cryptoasset fraud and recovery
The battle against fraud is changing, but the threat isn't reducing. Carmel King explains how corporate intelligence can support the Bar to help victims of crypto fraud.
