Q2 2026 in US crypto enforcement: a laundering service shut and OneCoin victims repaid

US agencies announced 30 distinct crypto enforcement actions in the second quarter of 2026, according to the Bitminer.io enforcement ledger, up from 22 in the first. The Justice Department brought 22. Sentences were the most common step, with 9, and they had a median of 96 months.

AudiA6

In June, two men living in Georgia, the country, were arrested and charged with running AudiA6, a crypto laundering service that prosecutors believe moved more than $389 million. Its servers and domains were taken down in the US, Iceland, Germany and France, along with a cybercrime forum where it advertised.

OneCoin’s victims

In April, the Justice Department opened a compensation process for victims of OneCoin, who invested over $4 billion in the fake cryptocurrency between 2014 and 2019. Two years earlier, OneCoin’s lawyer and its head of compliance had been sentenced to 10 years and four years.

Sentences and pleas

In April, the founder of Meta-1 Coin, convicted in November 2025, was sentenced to 23 years. The same month, the operator of a crypto over-the-counter exchange was sentenced to eight years for laundering hundreds of millions of dollars, including drug proceeds, through the US.

On June 30, the chief executive of Goliath Ventures pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering in a scheme that promised returns from crypto liquidity pools. In August the SEC said the company had raised at least $425 million from over 1,300 investors.

Sources

1. Bitminer.io enforcement ledger: 2026
2. US Department of Justice, AudiA6 charges
3. US Department of Justice, OneCoin compensation
4. US Department of Justice, Meta-1 Coin sentence
5. US Department of Justice, OTC laundering sentence
6. US Department of Justice, Goliath Ventures plea
7. SEC, Goliath Ventures charges

By The Assayer, the Bitminer.io house byline. Written by AI from the sources above and checked automatically. No person reviewed it before publication. How we work.