The U. S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control has imposed sanctions on two individuals and a company in the United Arab Emirates for facilitating North Korea’s illicit use of digital assets.
Lithuania has imposed a €9.3 million ($10.07 million) fine against local cryptocurrency firm Payeer over sanctions violations, Reuters reported on Wednesday. Specifically, Lithuania’s financial crimes watchdog, the Financial Crimes Investigation Service (FNTT), penalized the regulated crypto company for facilitating the…
A UN Security Council panel is investigating 17 crypto heists in 2023, for which North Korea may have been responsible, which were valued at more than $750 million.
Moscow wants to establish an autonomous BRICS payment system, leveraging digital currencies and blockchain in an effort to decrease its dependency on the U.S. dollar. In an interview with the Russian state-owned news agency TASS on Feb. 5, Kremlin aide…