The United States Ministry of Justice (MJ) seized more than $ 200,000 in cryptocurrency intended to benefit the Hamas militant group which he declared in a statement March 27.
Cryptocurrency with a total value of $ 400 was allocated to fundraising addresses which allegedly controlled by Hamas and used to whiten more than $ 1.5 million in digital assets since October 2024.
Local laundering occurred thanks to a series of “exchange of virtual currencies and transactions by taking advantage of suspicious financiers and over -the -counter brokers,” said the MJ. The funds are currently organized in a combination of at least 17 portfolios.
Affidavit to grasp the cryptocurrency linked to Hamas. Source: US Doj
In January 2024, the control of foreign assets of the American Treasury, as well as organizations corresponding to the United Kingdom and Australia, announced sanctions against networks and facilitators of cryptographic transactions linked to Hamas. These sanctions were built on the sanctions of the US Treasury from October 2023.
In January 2024, three families of Hamas’ attack against Israel continued Binance and his former CEO Changpeng Zhao, alleging that the exchange had provided “substantial aid” to the terrorists. In the oral arguments, a lawyer representing Binance said that the exchange had “no special relationship (with) Hamas (…)”.
Binance was confronted with a meticulous examination of the United States government for alleged shortcomings in its anti-whithening controls. The scholarship settled with the DOJ for $ 4.3 billion in November 2023.
No more necessary regulations?
According to At a December 2024 report by the Congressional Research Service, Hamas would have asked for cryptocurrency donations since at least 2019, although “the scale and efficiency” of these efforts were not clear.
Terrorist organizations using Crypto for fundraising has more and more attracted the attention of the United States, some officials wondering if the industry needed more supervision or regulation to stop such behavior.
According to a report on the channel in 2023, the financing of terrorism accounts For a very small amount of use of cryptography, with illegal groups that take care of the use of traditional methods based on the Fiat to finance operations.
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