Le United Nations confirm that cryptocurrencies lend a hand to criminals. Almost. As recently stated by Neil Wals, head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Global Cybercrime, digital currencies have made the fight against money laundering much more difficult than it was in the past, in an age of lack of crypto-value assets .
More in detail, Wals specified that cryptocurrencies make it more difficult to counter cybercrime, money laundering and terrorist financing. Indeed, the United Nations expert has stated that he supports the ideal that criminals are now able to use cryptocurrency assets in order to finance and feed some shady dealings, such as international networks of sexual exploitation, far more widespread than they are. part of the population can imagine.
Wals stated that he believed that cryptocurrencies contributed to adding a layer of secrecy to these trades, thus facilitating the ill-intentioned.
Another negative blow to the global cryptocurrency opinion, which comes just weeks after US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said government agencies will prevent Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies from becoming the equivalent of secret bank accounts in Switzerland.
