Not exact matches
There is absolutely no evidence so far that
terrorists used any bitcoin in
financing their actions or why would they not simply use cash if the
purpose is just to rent a getaway car, mobile phones or anything else they don't want tracked.
However, those statements needed to be clarified when the investigation was completed, as no such link was proven: «[t] here is absolutely no evidence so far that
terrorists used any bitcoin in
financing their actions or why would they not simply use cash if the
purpose is just to rent a getaway car, mobile phones or anything else they don't want tracked.»
The European Parliament recently published a report detailing directives to prevent the use of the financial system for the
purposes of money laundering or
terrorist financing.
But Malliotakis and Castorina argued that wiping those records could compromise a future criminal investigation into a cardholder who used his IDNYC for illicit
purposes — for instance, to open a bank account that
financed terrorist activity.