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 <li>Binance, Tokocrypto, and Bareskrim disrupted a major crypto scam, seizing $200,000.</li>
 <li>The joint operation revealed a pig butchering scam network with multiple suspects identified.</li>
 <li>Binance’s Financial Intelligence Unit played a crucial role in analyzing and freezing illicit assets.</li>
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Indonesian cryptocurrency exchange Tokocrypto and Binance teamed up with the country’s Criminal Investigation Agency (Bareskrim) and <a href="https://www.binance.com/en/blog/security/binance-and-tokocrypto-collaborate-with-indonesias-law-enforcement-to-uncover-major-crypto-fraud-seize-$200k-2528576342313093450" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">took down</a> a major cryptocurrency scam. The operation led to the arrest of several suspects and the recovery of $200,000 in stolen funds.
Bareskrim started looking into a trading fraud case in early November 2023. The case involved an alleged crypto trading website that turned out to be a pig butchering scam syndicate. Several people were arrested, including those involved in managing the accounts that received the stolen funds.
During the operation, authorities found around 50 mobile phones, along with local bank cards and banking apps on the suspects’ devices. Even though the suspects wouldn’t cooperate, Bareskrim was able to identify the wallet addresses of the cryptocurrency funds received through forensic analysis. They also traced some key wallet…
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