最新报道:South Korean courts have issued prison sentences of 12 to 20 years in a $1.6 billion cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, marking one of the country's harshest penalties for financial fraud. The defendants operated a fake trading platform that misappropriated funds from tens of thousands of victims, using new investments to pay earlier participants while laundering money through offshore shell companies. The ruling sets a major legal precedent as South Korea strengthens crypto regulations, with the FSC proposing stricter audits and transparency requirements for digital asset firms.