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Case law overview blockchaintracing & freezing crypto accounts 2025

Several crypto fraud verdicts and LE orders were again published in the past year. Several cases involved swaps, a clear trend in crypto fraud cases. Swaps are increasingly common in cryptocurrency fraud because swaps have a concealment effect: blockchain tracing goes as far as the blockchain address of the swap platform, which must provide data to establish what the stolen assets are converted into and where they are sent (the "dataset"). By 2025, several judges [...]

Hupkes advocaten2025-12-27T17:51:49+01:0027 December 2025|Asset Recovery, Cryptocurrencies, Duty of Care Banks, Financial law, Fraud & Deception, Preservatieve Attachment, Summary Proceedings, Uncategorized, Unlawful Act|

Recovering stolen crypto: the final steps

In our previous blogs, we outlined how stolen or fraudulently misappropriated cryptocurrency can be traced using blockchaintracing. We showed how we successfully obtained multiple "freezing orders" from Dutch courts in 2023 and 2024. A high-profile example was the case against Huobi in 2023, in which the court imposed a fine of as much as €2,000,000 to ensure that the account of the fraudulent customer was actually frozen. In summary proceedings, we ask not only for [...]

Hupkes advocaten2025-03-23T21:32:26+01:0023 March 2025|Asset Recovery, Cryptocurrencies, Financial law, Fraud & Deception, Investment Fraud & Boiler Rooms, Liability, Summary Proceedings, Unlawful Act|

Summoning defendant via email in crypto fraud cases

As an attorney in crypto fraud cases, I regularly see how crucial speed is in securing or not securing stolen digital assets. One of the biggest challenges here is the timely summoning of foreign cryptoexchanges for so-called "freezing orders" or pseudo-conservatory attachments. These legal tools are essential to freezing the accounts of suspected fraudsters, but traditional methods of summoning can be too slow in the fast-paced world of cryptocurrency. Ordinary summoning is too slow Fraudsters [...]

Hupkes advocaten2025-03-05T22:38:06+01:005 March 2025|Asset Recovery, Cryptocurrencies, European Bank Account Preservation Order, Financial law, Fraud & Deception, Investment Fraud & Boiler Rooms, Preservatieve Attachment, Summary Proceedings, Unlawful Act|

Cryptoexchange Kraken must make full disclosure about fraud

As a specialized firm in crypto fraud cases, we regularly see how victims struggle to recover their stolen digital assets. Although we have explained in previous blogs how accounts at cryptoexchanges can be frozen via a Dutch court order, even at foreign exchanges, this measure sometimes comes too late. Fraudsters have sometimes been able to clear accounts before any action can be taken. Every case is a race against the clock. An additional problem is [...]

Hupkes advocaten2025-01-07T14:37:14+01:007 January 2025|Asset Recovery, Cryptocurrencies, Financial law, Fraud & Deception, Investment Fraud & Boiler Rooms, Unlawful Act|

Case law overview blockchaintracing & freezing crypto accounts 2024

In 2024, several judgments have been rendered on crypto fraud, ordering cryptoexchanges to freeze accounts of (suspected) fraudulent users and to provide name and address details of these users. One of the challenges in these types of cases is the summoning of the defendant, who is often located in a (far) foreign country - often also in a country not party to the Hague Convention on service of process. In that situation, it can take [...]

Hupkes advocaten2024-12-30T17:54:59+01:0030 December 2024|Asset Recovery, Cryptocurrencies, Financial law, Fraud & Deception, Investment Fraud & Boiler Rooms, Preservatieve Attachment, Summary Proceedings|