The director of the DOJ’s National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) said the US is stepping up scrutiny of crypto exchanges.
Eun Young Choi, director of the Department of Justice’s NCET, said the United States is stepping up scrutiny of cryptocurrency exchanges and mixers to target illicit behaviour on the platforms, the Financial Times (FT) reports.
The crypto enforcement tsar told the FT the department would crack down on companies that engage in criminal activity themselves or allow crimes such as money laundering to take place on their platforms.
Choi said:
But on top of that, they’re allowing for all the other criminal actors to easily profit from their crimes and cash out in ways that are obviously problematic to us. And so we hope that by focusing on those types of platforms, we’re going to have a multiplier effect.
Director Choi further noted with the novel crackdown on cryptocurrency firms, the agency is looking to increase scrutiny to send a “deterrent messag
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