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Recently, financial regulators around the world have been growing concerned about the role of cryptocurrency in money laundering and financing of various illicit activities. The first two months of 2020 saw many governments acting on these concerns and introducing a variety of legal measures designed to bolster their defenses
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Cryptocurrencies are making gambling on the world’s most popular sport easier, sports authorities suggest.Asian soccer has seen a sharp decline in match-fixing over the last six years, according to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) in a Reuters article dated Feb. 14. However, the illegal gambling which has historically driven
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Elliptic, a blockchain analysis provider based in London, has announced that it will support the Ripple (XRP)trade digital currency to monitor electronic transactions. According to a research conducted by Elliptic that was also released this week, an estimation of about $400 million of XRP tokens are tied to illegal transactions.The
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United States think tank The Rand Corporation has taken a closer look at the dark web, where criminal activities are difficult to discover, monitor, and investigate for law enforcement.On Nov. 20, The Rand Corporation, the Police Executive Research Forum, and the University of Denver on behalf of the National
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The Internal Revenue Service is looking at bitcoin ATMs and their potential to facilitate illicit activities, its criminal investigation chief said. Source
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Iran has introduced a new policy, proposing that anyone who shares information about illegal and unauthorized mining of cryptocurrency in the country will receive a bounty. This was surfaced following the country’s new introduced regulations regarding the calculation of price of electricity that is utilized by crypto miners.Iran’s Energy Ministry’s
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