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A 20-year-old man from Florida has been sentenced to prison for his involvement in a SIM swapping conspiracy that resulted in the theft of $1 million in cryptocurrency. The man drained the funds from his victims through crypto SIM swap attacks. In another case, the founder of the now-defunct Oyster Protocol, Amir Bruno Elmaani, also known as 'Bruno Block,' has been sentenced to four years in jail for tax evasion. Elmaani claimed to have no income while spending millions on yachts, homes, and a home improvement store. Additionally, Taiwanese police have uncovered the country's largest cryptocurrency money laundering case, involving 320 million USDT. The criminal suspects often traveled to Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, and other locations to communicate with local fraud groups and assist in money laundering. In Scotland, police have tracked a $200,000 bitcoin robbery, marking the first such case in the country.