{"id":86683,"date":"2026-07-21T09:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86683"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:05:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T09:05:36","slug":"taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/?p=86683","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan Court Jails Cointhink Fraud Leader for 22 Years After USDT Scheme Hit 1,539 People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Judicial Building in Taichung, Taiwan\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people-190x107.jpg 190w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people-380x214.jpg 380w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people-760x428.jpg 760w, https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/taiwan-court-jails-cointhink-fraud-leader-for-22-years-after-usdt-scheme-hit-1539-people.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\">A Taiwan court sentenced the leader of a major crypto fraud ring, a man surnamed Shih, to 22 years in prison. In total, 14 people were indicted. Deceptive Credentials Exploited Victims The mastermind of a major cryptocurrency scam operating under the name Cointhink Technology has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after a network [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Taiwan court sentenced the leader of a major crypto fraud ring, a man surnamed Shih, to 22 years in prison. In total, 14 people were indicted. Deceptive Credentials Exploited Victims The mastermind of a major cryptocurrency scam operating under the name Cointhink Technology has been sentenced to 22 years in prison after a network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[309],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cryptocabaret.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}