These two Aargau prosecutors hunt down crypto criminals

In online investment fraud, the perpetrators set up professional-looking websites with an integrated trading platform. The customers are fooled into making lucrative profits in the transactions in order to persuade them to make further investments.

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Lorenz Kilchenmann and Reto Steiger work at the Cybercrime competence center of the Aargau public prosecutor’s office and have been taking action for some time against criminals who use professional fraud to steal a lot of money from their victims. They feel like they have successfully invested in a cryptocurrency until one day the rude awakening comes.

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