No arrests as Brooklyn DA claws back about $300,000 from crypto scam ring

Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI shut down a multinational crypto investment scam that looted tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking Americans. District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Wednesday they seized 241 fraud websites and 112 servers and recovered about $300,000 so far. No one was arrested. The DA’s Virtual Currency Unit, or VCU, and the FBI made the takedown. It was one of the largest cyber disruptions orchestrated by a local DA’s office, prosecutors said. Investigators spent hours last week executing search warrants in three different time zones.

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