Virtual dirty money - why the Feds are circling around bitcoin
Very recently, it has become painfully clear that the US government wants a lot more information on decentralized virtual currencies like bitcoin. In an appropriations bill that went through the committee recently, the House of Representatives requested that the FBI provide a report to them. In the bill, under the heading "Money Laundering": "The Committee understands that bitcoins and other forms of peer-to-peer digital currency are a potential means for criminal, terrorist or other illegal organizations and individuals to illegally launder and transfer money. News reports indicate that....
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Authorities in Hong Kong have arrested four people suspected of money laundering a total of $155 million through cryptocurrency wallets and bank accounts. The city’s customs agency said this was its first case in which virtual money had been used to launder dirty cash. Money Laundering Syndicate Recycles $155 Million in Crypto and Fiat Transactions The criminal group is believed to have processed illegal funds for a total of 1.2 billion Hong Kong dollars ($155 million), Hong Kong Customs announced Thursday. In an operation code-named “Coin Breaker,” officers detained the....
Dirty Money: You don't need Bitcoin to move it. Bitcoin arrived on the World scene in 2009. There are people, of dubious character, interesting people, that have been transferring dirty money throughout the World, a long time before 2009. They can be very clever in how they accomplish this, and Bitcoin, despite all of the media's bad press, still isn't their chosen method of cash transfer. The Economist magazine recently carried out an investigation of the size of this illicit trade. According to Balesh Kumar of the Enforcement Directorate there are examples of criminals utilising the....
First of all the FBI have closed Liberty Reserve, a Costa Rica-based centralized digital currency service. After this, the feds closed the Silk Road, an underground website of illegal drugs that accepted only BTC, and arrested the owner of Silk Road. Bitcoin is the most-coveted decentralized digital currency, and at the moment the federals are really thinking a lot of this next generation virtual currency. On Monday US Senate will hold hearings on the Bitcoin and other digital currencies case. More precisely, the hearings will be hold in the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and....