THELOGICALINDIAN - Two cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia accept been abeyant afterward raids of the Australian Federal Police and the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre AUSTRAC One man has been arrested
Two Cryptocurrency Exchanges Suspended
After a specialized operation in Melbourne was agitated out by the Australian Federal Police in accord with AUSTRAC, two cryptocurrency exchanges accept been abeyant afterward the arrest of a ‘key member’ which was complex in the businesses, bounded media Micky reports.
The address doesn’t acknowledgment the name of the arrested individual, but it specifies that he is a 27-year-old man from Bulleen — a suburb of Melbourne. Purportedly, he has been answerable with the control of about 30 kilograms of drugs, including ketamine, cocaine, MDMA, and methamphetamine, as able-bodied as for its importing and trafficking.
Per the reports, the man has been associated with two cryptocurrency exchanges, the registrations of both of which accept already been abeyant by AUSTRAC. In addition, property, cryptocurrency, and banknote for added than AU$2M accept additionally been aseptic by the Federal Police afterward a cloister order.
Get Ready to Wait
While the letters haven’t yet appear which the two cryptocurrency exchanges are, it capacity that they won’t accomplish until added notice.
Speaking on the amount was Dr. Nathan Newman, AUSTRAC’s National Manager of Regulatory Operations, who said:
It charcoal cryptic how this is activity to affect the audience of these cryptocurrency exchanges.
Earlier in 2018, Bitcoinist reported that scammers accept managed to con as abundant as $50,000 out of approved bodies application a affected tax debt fraud.
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