Japanese authorities arrested a gang of 18 alleged scammers by analyzing Monero transactions for the first time in crypto history. Japanese authorities said they analyzed about 900 of the group’s Monero (XMR)-based money-laundering transactions, which totaled about 100 million yen ($670,000). Japanese authorities told local media outlet Nikkei that this marked the first time the country’s law enforcement agencies had used Monero transactions to identify criminals. The criminal group and its suspected leader, Yuta Kobayashi, were arrested for money laundering […]