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Notable crypto-related crimes committed on June 24 in history:
📅 June 24, 2021
Metropolitan Police in London seize £114 million (~$158 million) in crypto, marking the UK’s largest ever seizure. Detectives from the Economic Crime Command intercepted criminal funds following intelligence on illicit asset transfers en.wikipedia.org+15reddit.com+15cointelegraph.com+15.
📅 June 24, 2022
Harmony’s Horizon Bridge hacked by Lazarus Group, a North Korea–linked cybercrime syndicate. The FBI later confirmed they stole approximately $100 million in crypto on that day .
Also on the same day, funds from that hack were laundered using Tornado Cash, a crypto mixer that would later be blacklisted. The U.S. Treasury alleged $96 million was laundered through it from the Horizon hack en.wikipedia.org.
📅 June 24, Other Years – Notable Context
While these are the most prominent crypto crime days on June 24, earlier historical incidents around mid‑year include:
Typosquatting thefts (e.g., a €24 million scam busted in June 2019 across Europe) axios.comscworld.com+2nltimes.nl+2eurojust.europa.eu+2,
And classic exchange hacks like the Mt. Gox collapse (February 2014) and Bitfloor breach (September 2012) techcentral.co.za+1time.com+1—though not tied to June 24 specifically.
📰 Recent Coverage (June 24, 2025)
A global criminal association, Hongmen, launched and later dumped its “Hongbi” cryptocurrency—an apparent pump-and-dump scheme used for money laundering, per UNODC washingtonpost.com.
U.S. states are cracking down on crypto ATMs due to a surge in scams targeting older Americans, with a tenfold increase in kiosk-related losses between 2020 and 2023 axios.com.
💡 Summary
June 24 has been a recurring date for major crypto crimes—and enforcement actions:
High-value government seizures (UK Met Police 2021),
Cyberheists by state‑linked actors (Horizon Bridge 2022),
And ongoing use of crypto infrastructure for illicit schemes (pump‑and‑dump, scams via ATMs).