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REVEALED: €1BN – or half – of Bizlato’s crypto exchanges linked to crime gangs and sanctions-busting, say EU police who have arrested top management

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BIZLATO: The French Gendarmerie took down the digital infrastructure of the crypto exchange, based in France, and interrogated leading members of the platform’s management. The operation also involved law enforcement and judicial authorities from Belgium, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands.

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NEWS: France, Ireland and Latvia called out by EU for AML failures

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NEWS: PEPs law make politicians, families ‘guilty until proven innocent’ MPs claim in Ireland’s parliament

INSIGHT: New AML rules will change the EU’s financial crime prevention landscape for good. But what will change in practice?

By AMLi Correspondent EUROPEAN police agencies have arrested the top management of dirty money crypto exchange Bizlato, it has been revealed. Analysis now indicates 46pc of the assets exchanged through Bitzlato, worth roughly €1BN had links to criminal activities.  More than 3,500 bitcoin addresses and around 1,000 Bitzlato user details showed links with various criminal…

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NEWS: France, Ireland and Latvia called out by EU for AML failures

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NEWS: PEPs law make politicians, families ‘guilty until proven innocent’ MPs claim in Ireland’s parliament

INSIGHT: New AML rules will change the EU’s financial crime prevention landscape for good. But what will change in practice?

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