...Niesa Van Staden; Elsabe Kilian; Jacqui-Lyn McIntyre Purpose Virtual assets are considered to be particularly susceptible to money laundering. The Financial Action Task Force has established an international regime to address the money laundering risk associated with virtual assets. This study...

...Maryna Utkina; Roman Samsin; Maksym Pochtovyi This paper aims to illustrate how virtual assets are used in such criminal offenses as money laundering and seeks to study the role of financial intelligence (monitoring) of transactions with virtual assets effectively in combating money...

...Mykhailo Dumchikov; Oleg Reznik; Olha Bondarenko Purpose The purpose of this paper is to define and characterize peculiarities of countering the legalization of criminal income with the help of virtual assets. Design/methodology/approach The analysis of the legislative delineation...

... offences involving cryptocurrencies. Prosecution Financial crime Bitcoin Cryptocurrencies Cryptoassets Virtual assets UK EPSRC EP/S022503/1 The rise in popularity of cryptocurrencies since Bitcoin’s release in 2009 has transformed the perpetration of financial crime by facilitating...

... provisions in virtual asset regulation. Invoking the exclusion provisions for banning virtual assets without meeting the prerequisites may put the financial system at risk and make a jurisdiction’s legal obligations appear breached. Anti-money laundering (AML) policymakers will take precautions...