Crypto is often used to finance terrorism and illicit money transactions. Which is not desirable at all and these are criminal activities. Recently the United States Treasury official House has expressed his concern about illegal money crypto and he also made a statement to the Financial Services Committee of the United States regarding this and expressed his concern about this illegal money crypto. He explained his position on this and also sought more authority to stop or go after bad actors.
Anyway a date has been fixed for the committee hearing on this and that will be tomorrow. His organization is totally opposed to illegal money crypto and he wants more powers to bring them under the law. Even the Under Secretary of the Treasury for Financial Intelligence has requested a hearing from the US Congress as well as for terrorism and cryptocurrency crimes in his prepared statement for congressional hearings, clearly targeting the illicit use of crypto assets for money laundering and terrorist financing. It is true that currently cryptos are still unregulated. Moreover, these transactions are very confidential where the real identity of the person is hidden, as a result of which many times some unscrupulous people are involved in nefarious activities like financing of terrorism or illegal transactions or money laundering.
The US Treasury has been working for the past decade to prevent such illicit transactions and combat the financing of terrorism. Their main objective is to continue the fight against the financing of terrorism. US Treasury authorities are claiming that the risk of illicit money has been greatly reduced while promoting responsible innovation.
Even this company continues to try to solve these problems and therefore they have some troubleshooting tools. This includes allowing authorities to hold companies accountable that do not comply with bank secrecy laws. However, in order to prevent such crimes, the country's other financial institutions must also play a role and also comply with the law and cooperate. which imposes specific requirements on financial institutions to prevent and detect money laundering and other financial crimes.
He released a statement about the Under Secretary of the Treasury saying that they will need additional tools and resources if they are to stop such illicit transactions and stop the financing of terrorism. Through which they can stop the illegal transactions. And in CISA, he also said that's why he's eager to work with Congress to pass common-sense reforms. It wants more additional tools and updated authorities to make this organization more powerful so that it can adequately address the growing challenges it is facing. Check out their tweets about this which he shared on the former Twitter (now 'X').
https://x.com/UnderSecTFI/status/1757453589964861758?s=20
Last year the Treasury Department proposed more new sanctions tools to crack down on wrongdoers in the cryptocurrency space. They have even proposed to expand the powers of their agencies and officials. For that the authorities of this organization have shared the suggestions with the legislators. Dada also stressed the need for stablecoins of all kinds.
The issue has always been work on illicit transactions, money laundering, money laundering, terrorist financing, and proliferation financing and therefore follows the recent publication of the Treasury's National Risk Assessment this year. They even published a report on illegal transactions and money laundering and it emphasized that bad actors often do criminal activities like drug trafficking with cash. Also there are many bad actors who use virtual assets out there. And this number is growing. So approach the problem by empowering yourself and using additional tools to solve the problem and increase your capabilities. Anyway, to know more details about this, you can read this news .
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