http://news.slashdot.org/story/22/05/21/1455209/avoiding-sanctions-with-cryptocurrency-us-govt-files-first-criminal-charges
Avoiding Sanctions with Cryptocurrency? US Govt Files First Criminal Charges (msn.com) 19
Posted by EditorDavid on Saturday May 21, 2022 @05:34PM from the following-the-money dept.
Last week America's Justice Department "launched its first criminal prosecution involving the alleged use of cryptocurrency to evade U.S. economic sanctions," reports the Washington Post. They cite a nine-page opinion from a federal judge approving the government's criminal complaint against an American "accused of transmitting more than $10 million worth of bitcoin to a virtual currency exchange in one of a handful of countries comprehensively sanctioned by the U.S. government: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria or Russia.
"In the ruling, the judge called cryptocurrency's reputation for providing anonymity to users a myth."
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