Richard ‘HEX’ Heart arrested in Turkey running another crypto scam
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By Steven Stradbrooke . Senior writer covering all things blockchain, with a focus on regulatory, legislative and policy developments. TL;DR: Turkish police and intelligence agents arrested HEX and Pulse founder Richard Heart (Richard James Schueler) and his wife in an Istanbul dawn raid on Wednesday, October 14. They suspect he ran a new international crypto fraud network from the city. Heart already faced an Interpol red notice for tax fraud in Finland; meanwhile, a U.S. judge dismissed the SEC’s fraud case against him in February 2025.
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