Sentences with phrase «with illicit activities»

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Still, the program did illicit some raised eyebrows, as Monero has recently been associated with criminal activities.

A spokesperson for PayPal told Bloomberg that the company is «intensely focused on combatting and preventing the illicit use of our services» and working with law enforcement to stop illegal activity.

During that time, Londoño worked with powerful Colombian crime boss Diego Fernando Murillo, aka «Don Berna,» running drug - trafficking operations and expanding into other illicit activities.

While bitcoin has been associated with illicit transactions, estimates of the proportion of the digital currency used in illegal activities vary.

To combat the activities of Mexican, Central American, and South American transnational criminal organizations — including illicit finance and money laundering activities and the flow of illegal drugs — the FBI works side - by - side with its numerous domestic and international partners to infiltrate, disrupt, and dismantle these groups by targeting their leadership and using sensitive investigative and intelligence techniques in long - term, proactive investigations.

Regulators say the main focus of the new rules is to avoid money laundering and other illicit activities that were previously involved with Bitcoin.

Think of the amount of harm and illicit activity that is going on with fiat currency compared to cryptocurrency at the moment.

As with any other asset or medium of exchange, Bitcoins can be used to purchase illegal goods or fund illicit activities.

It was a fun excuse to play with toys, but Jones was hawking a philosophy, too: that good parents are parents who are having fun with their kids, no matter how illicit the activity might seem.

They stress that offshore companies in themselves are not illicit — and they were not responsible for any activities their clients did with the entities.

He noted that exercises are still being undertaken as part of the 2015 deal like the operation Obangame, a naval collaboration with Gulf of Guinea and West African nations to counter sea - based illicit activity.

Filled with its fair share of illicit activity, the film is well poised (especially with the debacle surrounding the crippled release of The Interview) to play the role of box office alternative this holiday season.

He states that: «Internet surveillance in the workplace is not at the employer's discretionary power -LRB-...) Even where there exist suspicions of cyberslacking, diversion of the employer's IT resources for personal purposes, damage to the employer's IT systems, involvement in illicit activities or disclosure of the employer's trade secrets, the employer's right to interfere with the employee's communications is not unrestricted.»

As cryptocurrency has become mainstream governments around the world have taken the first steps towards cryptocurrency regulations; Russia wants to create a robust tax regime, the UK and EU wants to force cryptocurrency to comply with Know your Customer (KYC) and Anti Money Laundering (AML) legislation and the Trump administration has voiced concerns that «Bitcoin is being used for illicit activity».

There'll never be a believable account of a computer engaging in illicit activities with foreign and domestic sex workers, or interns, because it simply can't do those things.

World leaders meeting in Davos last week issued fresh warnings about the dangers of cryptocurrencies, with U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin relating Washington's concern about the money being used for illicit activity.

With respect to recent headlines, the country is concerned about the usage of cryptocurrency for illicit activity.

The law was also proposed in order to curb or stop illicit and illegal activities that might be contacted with cryptocurrencies.

According to a recent CNBC article, most British banks have abstained from doing business with cryptocurrency - related businesses, in general, due to concerns of illicit activities.

With the start of 2018, the government bodies started taking regulatory measures in order to get control over the crypto madness and also attain control over other illicit activities of tax evasion and money laundering.

Regulatory oversight has only increased in recent times with KYC / AML requirements increasing in an effort to combat illicit usage and terrorist funding, as well as involvement in other illegal activities.

While not entirely opposed to the tenets of bitcoin, for example, Bill Morneau is eager to cut out any illicit activities associated with the sector.

Fourth, using Add Health data, McGlinchey and Harvey, (2015) found a late bedtime in adolescence (M age = 16) to predict cigarette use, alcohol abuse, illicit drug use, criminal activity, and emotional distress 6 years later (M age = 21.8), with all but one of these associations (alcohol abuse) still significant when controlling for parent — child attachment and peer delinquency.