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FBI Is Now Investigating 130 Cryptocurrency Related Cases

Thu Jun 28, 2018 2:35 pm

https://coinpedia.org/news/fbi-investig ... pto-cases/


The news broke out at the Crypto Evolved conference in New York by Kyle Armstrong, the FBI Supervisory Special Agent, that FBI is currently investigating on 130 cryptocurrency related cases. According to the report released on Wednesday, the cases are related to crimes such as drug transactions, human trafficking, hacking in which cryptocurrency is a main component.

Kyle Armstrong, in charge of the FBI’s virtual currency initiative stated that;
“The cases ‘threat tagged’ to virtual currencies encompass crimes such as human trafficking, illicit drug sales, and kidnapping and ransom ware attacks”.

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