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The US Department of Justice is prosecuting the operator of a payment platform that flouted economic sanctions using cryptocurrency. As reported by The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>, it\u2019s possibly the first criminal prosecution of crypto-related sanctions evasion \u2014 underscoring both the technology\u2019s potential for getting around financial blocks and its traceability by law enforcement.<\/p>\n
District of Columbia Magistrate Judge Zia Faruqui revealed the prosecution\u2019s existence in an opinion on a still-sealed case<\/a>, omitting the name of the payment platform as well as the \u201ccomprehensively sanctioned country\u201d it dealt with. (There are five such countries<\/a>: Iran, North Korea, Syria, Cuba, and Ukraine\u2019s Crimea region.) The operator apparently used an exchange to purchase $10 million in Bitcoin and send it to the country on behalf of platform customers.<\/p>\n
Faruqui supports guidance from the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), saying that virtual currency falls under economic sanctions. \u201cThe question is no longer whether virtual currency is here to stay,\u201d he writes, \u201cbut instead whether fiat currency regulations will keep pace with frictionless and transparent payments on the blockchain.\u201d Prosecuting criminal cases of willful violations matters particularly because OFAC could, in theory, go after parties that were unknowingly led into participating \u2014 like a crypto exchange that was used to buy the bitcoin \u2014 for civil violations.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cSanctions do not apply to virtual currency? WRONG.\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\nThe opinion also emphasizes that crypto isn\u2019t as anonymous as some users believe. The platform operator \u201cdid not hide the payments platform\u2019s illegal activity. Defendant proudly stated the payments platform could circumvent US sanctions by facilitating payments via Bitcoin,\u201d Faruqui writes. He suggests they were lulled into a false sense of security. \u201cVirtual currency is traceable … Yet like Jason Voorhees the myth of virtual currency\u2019s anonymity refuses to die.\u201d<\/p>\nCrypto has come to the forefront as a way to circumvent barriers in international commerce, particularly following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine earlier this year. (This practice can be complicated by virtual currency\u2019s extreme volatility<\/a>.) While Ukraine\u2019s government took in millions of dollars via cryptocurrency donations, some individual Russians turned to crypto<\/a> after their financial ties to the outside world were cut off.<\/p>\n
But Faruqui\u2019s opinion seeks to throw cold water on criminal use of it. \u201cIssue One: virtual currency is untraceable? WRONG,\u201d he writes in a conclusion. \u201cIssue Two: sanctions do not apply to virtual currency? WRONG.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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