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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|

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|

Blockchaintracing has come of age and helps with crypto fraud

Blockchain tracing has become an essential tool in the fight against crypto fraud in the past 2 years, especially when stolen funds are funneled through blockchain networks. The transparency of the blockchain allows experts to track fraudulent transactions, even if they go through multiple addresses or complex routes. This creates legal opportunities to secure the stolen digital assets and crack down on fraudsters. Detection of exchanges and KYC data. Blockchaintracing can link specific blockchain addresses [...]

Hupkes advocaten2025-04-15T07:25:04+01:0030 December 2024|Asset Recovery, Cryptocurrencies, Financial law, Fraud & Deception, Summary Proceedings, 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|

Domestic cryptoexchanges: conservatory attachment or injunctive freezing order?

When recovering stolen cryptocurrency or establishing recourse to crypto that is nothing more than a new guise of stolen bank assets after fraud, speed is of the essence. It is therefore crucial to have adequate legal tools in place to secure assets. An important question here is: can you impose a regular conservatory attachment on a Dutch cryptoexchange such as Bitvavo, or do you have to rely on a 'freezing order' through the summary proceedings [...]

Hupkes advocaten2024-04-27T20:21:29+01:0027 April 2024|Asset Recovery, Cryptocurrencies, Financial law, Preservatieve Attachment, Summary Proceedings, Unlawful Act|