Anti-Money Laundering – Industry News

The coin prince: inside Bitcoin’s first big money-laundering scandal What last week’s arrest of Charlie Shrem means for the virtual currency A week ago, 24-year-old Charlie Shrem landed at JFK, home from giving a talk about the virtual currency Bitcoin at an e-commerce convention in Amsterdam. The trip had gone well. Shrem’s speech made the front…

Anti-Money Laundering – Industry News

Top Bitcoin executives charged with money laundering in US Two Bitcoin executives have been charged in the US with conspiring to commit money laundering by selling more than USD one million of the digital currency to users of an illicit online drugs bazaar ‘Silk Road’. India-born US Attorney Preet Bharara brought the criminal charges in…