A 22-year-old Singaporean man has pleaded guilty to his role in an international cryptocurrency racketeering operation that prosecutors say stole and laundered more than $245 million or Rs 2,343.37 crore in digital assets.
Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout who later lived in Miami, pleaded guilty on September 8, 2026, in US District Court in Washington, DC, to one count of participating in a RICO conspiracy. The US Department of Justice has described Lam as the ringleader of an international cybercrime enterprise that allegedly used social engineering to target cryptocurrency holders.