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• Home • Practice Areas • Medical Malpractice • Bad & Dangerous Drugs • Surgical Mistakes / Errors • Aviation Accidents • Civil Gun Cases • Gun Defense Cases • Aggravated Assault • Armed Robbery • Brandishing a Firearm • Gun Trafficking • Cryptocurrency Cases • Anti-Money Laundering • Bank Secrecy Act • What is Cryptocurrency? • About Us • Contact Us Federal anti-money laundering laws are often the downfall for criminal organizations and individuals who are involved in illegal lucrative schemes. A white-collar offense, money laundering is the process through which a person or organization introduces money that is derived from illegal activity into the financial system with the end goal of obscuring the source of the money to evade detection by law enforcement. The How crypto money laundering works In contrast to The newly purchased bitcoin is now stored in what is referred to as a coin wallet, a virtual space that has its own QR code and traceable address. To further obscure the money trail, Phase 2 consists of engaging in “mixing” or “tumbling,” a process through which the primary digital wallet address is switched with temporary addresses. Mixed bitcoin holdings are then transferred to an advanced cryptocurrency exchange with the intention of obtaining privacy coins. Once in a wallet within an advanced exchange, bitcoin may be exchanged for privacy coins, altcoins that are designed to give users even more anonymity. Dash, Zcash, Monero, Verge, and Desire are popular exam...

In just thirteen years, cryptocurrencies have redefined money. It’s little wonder, then, that they’ve also redefined money laundering. Over the past decade, there have been hundreds of high-profile cryptocurrency-based financial crimes, from the PlusToken Ponzi scheme to the laundering operations of Suex . Regulators, financial institutions, and law enforcement agencies combat these activities with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your customer (KYC) policies. In this article, we define these terms, how they work, and why they matter for cryptocurrency. • • • • • • • • • What is anti-money laundering (AML) for crypto? Cryptocurrency anti-money laundering (AML) encompasses the laws, regulations, and practices designed to stop criminals from converting illegally obtained cryptocurrencies into fiat currencies. How does crypto AML work? The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) sets the standards for AML laws globally. FATF began publishing guidance on cryptocurrency AML in 2014, and policymakers in FATF’s member jurisdictions quickly took action; today, FinCEN, the European Commission, and dozens of other regulatory bodies have codified most of FATF’s cryptocurrency AML recommendations into law. From there, the baton gets passed on to virtual asset service providers (VASPs)—a group that FATF defines to include crypto exchanges, stablecoin issuers, and, on a case-by-case basis, some DeFi protocols and NFT marketplaces. These businesses do the heavy lifting to stop money laund...

Late-stage talks on the law were being held in Brussels to find a set of rules agreeable to both the European Parliament, and the Council of the EU (which groups together the 27 member states to make collective legislative decisions). The Council is currently chaired by France. The deal was made in the nick of time, just over one day before France would have had to cede control over talks to the Czech Republic. Urtasun confirmed that the final deal would mean that, for transactions between regulated wallets, customer identity details have to be recorded for even the smallest transaction. That makes crypto rules unlike those for the conventional banking sector, which only catch those worth over 1,000 euros.

By Dustin Palmer Global and U.S. regulators are clamping down on the “Wild West” crypto industry. New York’s attorney general shut down Coinseed for trading currencies without being registered as a broker-dealer. Bitfinex and Tether were also shut down earlier this year after they paid $18.5 million in penalties. And Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control just designated SUEX for facilitating financial transactions for ransomware actors (such as Colonial Pipeline). These investigations are not just for the small players. It has also been reported that Binance Holding Ltd is being investigated by the Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, and Commodity Futures Trading Commission—for everything from sales of derivatives to money laundering to insider trading and market manipulation. In response, Binance centralized its compliance function and hired a former U.S. Treasury Criminal Investigator as its new AML Officer. Probably a dozen other firms are under investigation, with other regulators involved, such as the New York State Department of Financial Services, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Indeed, the Biden administration’s SEC chairman, Gary Gensler, has mentioned multiple times that there is insufficient regulatory oversight of crypto exchanges. That appears to be changing. Overseas, the new reality of crypto exchange regulation is coming into sharper focus: • In 2020, Canada’s financial intelligence uni...