Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
India’s law enforcement agency Directorate of Enforcement (ED) froze over $1,5 million deposited in crypto exchange Binance. The funds were deposited in Bitcoin via a transaction tie to crypto exchange WazirX and the Mobile Gaming App called E-Nugget...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The Japanese government should introduce rules that target criminals using crypto from crypto exchanges to launder money. Reportedly, these remittance rules are supposed to be introduced by next springtime.
The Act on the Prevention of the Transfer o...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
A new report from Reuters has revealed that regulators from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) had, in late 2020 requested information from Binance as it concerns its internal communications with respect to its Anti-Money Laundering (AML)...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
One of the most crypto-friendly countries in the world wants to synchronize its crypto regulations with associated rules in the European Union. Georgia, one of the wor...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) has conducted searches at five premises linked to popular cryptocurrency trading platform Coinswitch Kuber. The company says its engagement with the ED was not related to any money laundering inquiry. The f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
An artist from Latvia is under investigation for allegedly selling NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, to launder money, for which he may get up to 12 years in prison. The authorities have blocked his bank accounts and launched an investigation without eve...
by COINS NEWS - 1 year ago
"A Latvian developer and artist identified as Ilya Borisov are facing up to 12 years in prison after authorities claimed that his non-fungible tokens earnings of €8.7 million are proceeds of money laundering and crime on a large scale.
Through his...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
The European Union through the Council of the EU has agreed on partial terms to establish an Anti-Money Laundering (AML) body that will be named the Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) (Read More)
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
European institutions have reached an interim consensus on a set of EU regulations that will burden crypto companies with the obligation to help prevent money laundering, among other illicit activities potentially involving digital assets. The progre...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Terra CEO Do Kwon has been in hot water ever since the collapse of the network last month. After the UST lost its peg and the price of LUNA (Now LUNC) crashed below zero, there had been calls for investigations into the cause of the crash seeing that...
Cryptocoins News / Blockchain - 1 year ago
Binance trading platform of facilitating around $2.4 billion in illicit funds from world-acclaimed criminal organizations like Lazarus Group and Hydra.
Previously, Reuters indicating the crypto exchange that involves illicit activities. However,...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 year ago
Crypto exchange Binance published a lengthy response to an article published by Reuters that claims that the exchange has been a “hub for hackers, fraudsters and drug traffickers,” saying that there’s at least “$2.35 billion in illicit funds” launder...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Major crypto exchange Binance replied to a report published by media outlet Reuters. The controversial report claims Binance has been key to allegedly support illicit activity around the world, failed to provide assistance to authorities to prevent m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
The president of Panama, Laurentino Cortizo, has declared he will not sign the recently approved cryptocurrency bill passed by the National Assembly of the country in its current form. Cortizo stated that one of his main concerns about the bill is th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
Three Nigerian nationals are accused of using money laundering proceeds to buy bitcoin worth over $43 million from cryptocurrency exchange platforms like Binance and Busha. The trio is accused of moving an equivalent of over $215 million from Nigeria...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 2 years ago
In her address to the International Monetary Fund, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman called for a global cryptocurrency framework to keep a check on the use of cryptocurrencies for illicit activities.
Sithraman’s comments came on Monday duri...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 2 years ago
The UIAF, which is the Colombian money laundering watchdog, has postponed the date on which exchanges and individuals must start reporting their transactions to the organization. The institution will now open a consulting period in which companies an...
More / Etherum Reddit - 2 years ago
Hello, today my bank called me and said that they have withheld a transfer of me because of money laundering reasons. The amount was almost 1K Euros which I deposit yesterday in cash at my local bank. I wanted to send the money to Moonpay in England...
More / Bitcoin Reddit - 2 years ago
Fink, who famously called the world’s best known cryptocurrency an “index of money laundering” five years ago, attributed his evolving stance to the Ukraine war.The conflict has become a catalyst prompting governments around the world to re-evaluate...