Fintiri is accused, in the charge marked: FHC / ABJ / CB / CB / 131/2016, of engaging in
money laundering activities involving a cumulative sum of over N1billion.
Not exact matches
Regulators say the main focus of the new rules is to avoid
money laundering and other illicit
activities that were previously
involved with Bitcoin.
To ensure that legal professionals are not unwittingly used by their clients in crimes
involving money laundering or terrorist financing
activities, all of Canada's law societies enforce rules developed by the Federation.
While there have been virtual currency cases
involving money laundering, paying off ransomware attacks and other illegal
activities, the Elgin police say they have never had reports related to bitcoin or the bitcoin ATMs.
If the trading account is frozen, the exchange can no longer continue its operations, otherwise it is easy to
involve illegal fund - raising,
money -
laundering and other criminal
activities.
It added that it currently was evaluating how it should regulate
activities involving digital tokens, which did not function solely as virtual currencies, against
money laundering and terrorist funding risks.
FINTRAC has yet to be
involved in the successful prosecution of a «Terrorist» cell or
money -
laundering activity based upon information collected and stored by Realtors.