{"id":427282,"date":"2026-05-14T18:31:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T13:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/400000000-seized-from-crypto-ponzi-scheme-now-available-to-compensate-victims-says-doj-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T20:01:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T14:31:47","slug":"400000000-seized-from-crypto-ponzi-scheme-now-available-to-compensate-victims-says-doj-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/400000000-seized-from-crypto-ponzi-scheme-now-available-to-compensate-victims-says-doj-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"$400,000,000 Seized From Crypto Ponzi Scheme Now Available To Compensate Victims, Says DOJ &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The US Justice Department says funds are now available to compensate victims of the AirBit Club. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Operators marketed the Ponzi scheme as a cryptocurrency mining and trading company with guaranteed profits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AirBit co-founders Pablo Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg Dos Santos, promoters Cecilia Millan and Karina Chairez and attorney Scott Hughes were sentenced in <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-sdny\/pr\/co-founder-global-multimillion-dollar-cryptocurrency-ponzi-scheme-airbit-club\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2023<\/span><\/a> for their role in the investment scam<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They were also ordered to forfeit all the fraudulent proceeds, which include real estate, US currency and crypto assets.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a <\/span><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/us-department-justice-announces-compensation-process-victims-airbit-club-fraud-scheme\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">statement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he Justice Department says the government now has substantial amount to distribute to the defrauded investors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cTo date, the United States has forfeited over $400 million in assets which are now available to compensate eligible victims for their compensable losses. Any victims who have previously provided their information to the FBI or U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office will be contacted by the remission administrator, RCB Fund Services, LLC, (RCB) to file a petition.\u201d<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The DOJ\u2019s announcement comes following the launch of the remission compensation process to provide recovery to AirBit victims last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Says Assistant Attorney General A. Tysen Duva of the Justice Department\u2019s Criminal Division,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe defendants took advantage of virtual currency\u2019s popularity to promote the scheme and recruit additional victims. 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AirBit co-founders Pablo Renato Rodriguez and Gutemberg Dos Santos, promoters Cecilia Millan and Karina Chairez and attorney Scott Hughes were sentenced in 2023 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173],"tags":[201,248,251,246,257,255,250,252,247,253,249,256,254],"class_list":["post-427282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-others","tag-blockchain","tag-bsc","tag-chainlink","tag-coin","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-gta","tag-looks-rare","tag-oracle","tag-polygon","tag-quickswap","tag-safe-moon","tag-wallet","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427285,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427282\/revisions\/427285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}