UK police may have invested a massive £100 million into a so-called “crypto task force” but a lack of funding, overstretched resources, and difficulty in persuading top talent to resist the financial might of the private sector continue to hamper efforts to properly police digital currencies.
In a Parliamentary debate this week, detective chief Alan Gould claimed that police in the UK are capable of tackling crypto crime thanks to a now-nationwide crypto task force. However, he admits police capacity, overstretched resources, and a lack of funding are holding back their efforts.
Kripto kriminal u Velikoj Britaniji raste. Nacionalna agencija za kriminal (NCA) bilješke „značajan rast“ kampanja ransomware-a, britanska policija bilježi povećati u zapljeni kriptovaluta i zahtjevu za slobodu informacija (FOI). pronađeno da je Binance korišten za 20% prijevara u Velikoj Britaniji.
Ovo povećanje stvara potražnju za osobama sa kripto know-howom i sada je Gould zabrinut zbog toga policijsko osoblje sa potrebnom stručnošću se lovi. He said, “One of my sergeants has just been offered 200 grand to go to the private sector. We cannot compete with that. That is probably the biggest risk that we face within this area at the moment.”
Gould is also concerned that the tools police in the UK use to track down crypto can be costly, “One of the providers is currently quoting $60,000 to $80,000 per license. That is unachievable, or unsustainable, for policing,” he said. The UK currently uses digital asset custodian Komainu to store any seized crypto.
On je istakao da je britanska policija uspjela zaplijeniti stotine miliona funti vrijedne kriptovalute u posljednjih nekoliko godina.
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However, when it comes to seizing crypto, he said: “it is getting harder and harder to do. The assets themselves are becoming more diverse and more technically complex, so our officers are in a bit of an arms race trying to keep up.”
Gould to primjećuje rad Uprave za finansijsko ponašanje pomogao je u regulisanju nezakonitih razmjena, saying the results of their crackdown have been “promising,” and that there “has definitely been a clean-up of the market in that space, which is positive.”
Američki federalci gube zaplijenjene kriptovalute
US police also struggle with crypto from time to time. Crypto bro siblings Larry Harmon and Gary Harmon were uključeni u nestanku 713 BTC (~5 miliona dolara) sa uređaja koji je policija već zaplijenila.
Nakon istrage koja je Larryja povezala s mračnom web kompanijom koja se oslanja na coin mixer Helix, na kraju je uhapšen i njegov BTC zaplijenjen. Vlasti su primijetile da se, uprkos konfiskaciji hardverskog novčanika, BTC i dalje prenosi.
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Larry, who’s already laundered $311 million with crypto, promised the police that it wasn’t him who was shifting the BTC, but his brother. Gary had access to the seed phrases and pin of the hardware wallet and so could effectively take the BTC as he wished.
Police eventually forced Larry to hand over his seed phrases while striking a deal with authorities to earn him a lesser sentence if he promised to help in the investigation. Soon after, Gary was caught using coin mixers to cover his tracks after transferring BTC from the seized account, ali je policija povezala njegovu e-poštu sa kripto adresama i potom ga uhapsila.
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Izvor: https://protos.com/uk-police-say-even-100m-not-enough-to-properly-police-crypto/