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UK Crime Agency Director: Selling Wildly Expensive Things for Bitcoin Could Attract Criminals

Amy Liu

Summary: A director of the UK’s top crime agency is concerned that selling wildly expensive things for Bitcoin might attract money-laundering criminals. “Anything purchased with crypto assets I’d be slightly sceptical about,” National Crime Agency director Nigel Leary told The Times of London in an interview published today.  “I’d like to see why they’re being done ...

A director of the UK’s top crime agency is concerned that selling wildly expensive things for Bitcoin might attract money-laundering criminals.

“Anything purchased with crypto assets I’d be slightly sceptical about,” National Crime Agency director Nigel Leary told The Times of London in an interview published today. 

“I’d like to see why they’re being done in that way and what the requirement is for that anonymity, and why it needed to be done in a crypto transaction,” he said.

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