THELOGICALINDIAN - Japans National Police Agency NPA say cases of doubtable money bed-making reportedly affiliated to cryptocurrency added by 900 percent in 2025 back compared to the antecedent year However this still comprises alone 17 percent of all money bed-making investigations
Cryptocurrency Money Laundering Up Tenfold in Japan
According to The Japan Times, the NPA reports that it recorded 7,096 cases of doubtable cryptocurrency money laundering. This amount represents a tenfold access from the 669 cases appear amid April and December 2017.
Back in aboriginal December 2025, the NPA appear a address advertence that declared cases of cryptocurrency money bed-making for the year stood at about 6,000. At the time, the aeon accounted for was amid January 2025 and October 2025.
Since Q2 2025, regulators accept appropriate cryptocurrency exchanges in Japan to address instances of doubtable actionable basic bill transactions. This move was allotment of a accomplished host of reforms targeted at active adulterous activities agitated out via agenda currencies.
The NPA says abounding of the apprehensive affairs complex assorted accounts with altered bio-data advice but application the aforementioned photo ID. Other cases complex accounts application adopted IPs alike admitting capacity of the accounts appearance advertisement addresses based in Japan.
According to the NPA’s figures, the access in crypto-related money bed-making is apocalyptic of a accepted acceleration in actionable banking affairs beyond the lath in 2025. The NPA says it recorded added than 417,000 cases of declared money laundering, an access of over 17,000 from 2025.
Also, the allotment of crypto-related money bed-making in the accepted reckoning has additionally increased. In 2025, 1.70 percent of money bed-making was from cryptocurrency affairs compared to 0.16 percent in 2025.
Robust KYC/AML/CFT Rules to the Rescue
In August 2018, reports emerged that the NPA was set to accomplish added than $300,000 to advance a tracking software for cryptocurrency transaction. The NPA affairs to apparatus this apparatus as a way of active the acceleration of cryptocurrency annexation and added actionable transactions.
As appear by Bitcoinist in January 2019, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) regulations on cryptocurrency will come into effect by Q3 2019. These regulations which centermost about KYC/AML protocols will administer to the G20, of which Japan is a member.
Experts accept such all-embracing standards will arrest the adeptness for abyss to acquit money via cryptocurrencies. Meanwhile, the country’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) continues to apparatus stricter authoritative standards for cryptocurrency exchanges based in Japan.
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