English Abstracts: Digital Financial Crime, Analysed from Germany

digitale-enteignung.de is a German-language platform on digital financial crime: pig butchering, cybertrading fraud, industrial-scale crypto money laundering and the regulatory response to it. The author, Tobias Kremp, is a blockchain analyst in the German public security sector and writes here in an independent capacity, based exclusively on publicly available primary sources such as FATF, Europol, INTERPOL, UNODC, the German BKA and FIU.

The full analyses are published in German. The abstracts below summarise the core findings in English.

When the Perpetrators Are Abroad: Investment Fraud and the Limits of German Crime StatisticsGermany's core crime statistics show investment fraud declining. The separate foreign-offence tables show it exploding. An analysis of the PKS 2025 figures on cybertrading fraud. Pig Butchering Explained: The Industrialisation of FraudHow pig butchering works, who runs it, and why an estimated 35 billion US dollars flowed to criminal scam networks in 2025. Data from FBI, BKA and blockchain analytics. One Business Model, Three Labels: Fraud Industry and Laundering InfrastructurePig butchering, cybertrading fraud and recovery scams share one business model. Money laundering is its infrastructure. The Huione case of June 2026. When Fraud Becomes Money Laundering: The German FIU Annual Report 2025The FIU annual report 2025 makes fraud its new focus while the count of crypto-related suspicious activity reports disappears. Two regulatory instruments close two different gaps. Of Hares and Hedgehogs: Two FATF Reports Measure the Enforcement GapLaw enforcement and compliance run the hare's race against a system already waiting at the finish line. Two FATF reports from July 2026 measure the gap and show where the hedgehog position works. MiCA: The First of July Draws a LineOn 1 July 2026 the MiCA transition period ended without extension. 204 platforms authorised, the rest lose EU access. Consequences for investors, banks and investigators. Visual KYC Is Dead: Synthetic Identities and the End of Selfie VerificationA synthetic German ID card, generated in five seconds. Why visual identity verification proves nothing in 2026 and selfie-ident has become compliance theatre. Fighting Cybercrime in Southeast Asia: A Region Under PressureMeasures against transnational cybercrime in Southeast Asia in 2025 and 2026: Myanmar's AML law, Cambodia's anti-fraud law, OFAC sanctions against compound operators. Glossary of Digital Financial CrimeThirty-nine core terms in English: fraud typologies, laundering techniques, forensic methods and the regulatory frameworks behind them. About the AuthorTobias Kremp, blockchain analyst in the German public security sector and independent author. Background, certifications and working principles.

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Written by Tobias Kremp, blockchain analyst and independent author on digital financial crime (Chainalysis Certified Investigator). All content is based exclusively on publicly available primary sources. Not an official statement of any authority. More English abstracts · LinkedIn