Sentences with phrase «criminal purposes»

The government agency regulating country's financial market claims that such crypto coins are too easy to use for criminal purposes as they are more difficult to track than block chain - based bitcoin.

In a scenario where a client has a clear and serious criminal purpose, and does not weigh the lawyer's advice, then the criminal communications exclusion would apply.

Possible issues include intellectual property, product liability, and use for criminal purposes.

A constitutionally - valid exercise of the feds» criminal law power requires (1) a prohibition (partial or absolute), (2) backed by a penalty, (3) for a valid criminal purpose.

The proposed law seeks to achieve typical criminal purposes (protect health and safety and prevent crime), by prohibiting certain activities (growing, marketing and selling) unless these activities are conducted in very specific ways.

It emphasized the international community's «profound concern for refugees» and held that before refugee status is denied on the basis of involvement in international crimes, a claimant must have made a «significant contribution to the crime or criminal purpose of a group».

Drones are also used for criminal purposes such as drug smuggling and delivering contraband to prisoners.

The minister also highlights «concerns about the use of cryptocurrency for criminal purposes, such as fraud and laundering.»

The European Parliament in May approved a proposal for a task force to investigate the role of some cryptocurrencies like bitcoin as there is a vast usage that is well known with the anonymity of some cryptocurrencies which enables their misuse for criminal purposes.

An obvious manifestation of security issues is the possibility, and increasingly the reality, of computer abuse for criminal purposes.

Unlike Okudzeto Ablakwa who conveys the impression in his articles that constitutionalism, democracy and the rule of law mandate that I should have protected the crimes and graft I exposed simply because of membership of a political party, I take the right and correct view that the constitution enjoins every citizen to uphold and defend it by exposing any activity of any person or group of persons who abuse Article 55 on political parties for criminal purposes.

NCA regional head of investigations Brendan Foreman said: «This was a sophisticated plot and at the centre of it was a man who used his privileged access to Heathrow and insider knowledge of the airport's systems for criminal purposes.

Throwing light on the $ 31 million fraud, the Commissioner for Commerce and Industry, Hon. Abdul Oroh, said: «The $ 31 million, which was stolen from the people of Edo State for the transaction, which was designed clearly for criminal purposes.

to protest Police action of frustrating their daily attempt to gain incursion into the Camp for criminal purposes, especially when the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) carries out the distribution of relief materials.

There is financial concerns for the clerks as well as the legal owners of weapons the only one who does not have a financial concern is the thief who stole the weapons, bought them illegally out of state and are using them for criminal purposes.

«The overwhelming majority of all firearms used for criminal purposes, some 80 percent, are acquired through private party transactions,» said Alvaro Castillo - Carniglia, lead author of the study and a VPRP postdoctoral research fellow.

This is typically done for criminal purposes.

Do you think all those lowlifes that breed dogs to fight, that are in gangs, and use dogs for criminal purposes are going out of their way to provide good medical care for their dogs?

Government interest in debarking rises from the belief that the surgical technique has been employed for criminal purposes to silence attack dogs so they will not bark and warn their intended victims.

(i) size and nature of the organization; (ii) part of the organization with which the refugee claimant was most directly concerned; (iii) refugee claimant's duties and activities within the organization; (iv) refugee claimant's position or rank in the organization; (v) length of time the refugee claimant was in the organization, particularly after acquiring knowledge of the group's crime or criminal purpose; (vi) method by which the refugee claimant was recruited and opportunity to leave.

The following list is a guide in assessing whether an individual has voluntarily made a significant and knowing contribution to a crime or criminal purpose:

While these points currently remain untested, it is suggested that the requirements for establishing the crime - fraud exception are likely to present some difficulty for regulators and prosecutors where the privilege holder is a company but where a dishonest or criminal purpose can only be established against certain individuals.

The Law Commission has reviewed the law of illegality in this area and has advocated the introduction of a statutory discretion in cases where a trust has been created to conceal a beneficiary's interest in connection with a criminal purpose.

The new test requires that the individual voluntarily and knowingly made a significant contribution to the organization's crime or criminal purpose.

It was an «abuse of modern technology for criminal purposes» and so a deterrent sentence of four years remained appropriate.

The criminal - communications exclusion to privilege (and, I have argued, to solicitor - client confidentiality — Understanding Lawyers» Ethics in Canada (2011) pp. 114 - 115) excludes information communicated to the lawyer which is in itself criminal, or which uses the lawyer's services to further a criminal purpose.

Judges should be given powers to use their discretion when tackling the illegality defence where property ownership is concealed for criminal purposes.

Aside from IP issues, our law is still not clear whether data can be «stolen» at all, for civil as well as criminal purposes.

The regulations will extend supervision to all businesses in the regulated sector to secure greater compliance with anti-money laundering controls and introduce strict tests to ensure money services business, and firms that help set up and manage trusts and companies, are not run for criminal purposes.

While Dubai hopes to become the first Blockchain - government by 2020, both Dubai and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) did release regulatory warnings in the fall of last year about the risks associated with cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), due to the potential use of crypto for criminal purposes, given its anonymous nature.

The profound lack of transparency, maturity and regulatory control has made cryptocurrencies a target for criminal purposes.

This leads to a lack of transparency and the potential misuse of cryptocurrencies for criminal purposes.

Thirdly, and most importantly, the lack of transparency and regulatory control have made cryptocurrencies a target for criminal purposes and we know that they on several occasions have been involved in criminal transactions like money laundering or extortion.

Amid global concerns that cryptocurrencies may be used for criminal purposes and money laundering, the G20 summit has highlighted for a discussion to be held on these viewpoints.