Anti-Money Laundering – Industry News

Bitcoin Enables Drug Dealing, Just as Major Banks Do Last week Charlie Shrem, the 24-year-old founder and chief executive of a leading Bitcoin payments company, was arrested at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport after getting off a plane from Amsterdam. Shrem, along with a Florida man named Robert Faiella, was charged with conspiracy to…

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…