FBI Helps to Train Nigerian Crypto Crime Investigators
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FBI Helps to Train Nigerian Crypto Crime Investigators

THELOGICALINDIAN - The United States government through the FBI afresh helped to run a training exercise whose ambition is to enhance the accommodation of Nigerian cryptocurrency abomination board the US Mission Nigeria USMN has said The exercise saw over 50 Nigerian board and prosecutors participate

Understanding the Trends

In its August 25 tweet, the USMN reveals that the training exercise was captivated in affiliation with the International Computer Hacking & IP Attorney Advisers (ICHIP) of Addis & Abuja. The mission additionally explained what the board abstruse from the exercise.

“Trainers aggregate patterns and trends in bent use of cryptocurrency and declared the assorted means in which bent enterprises use cryptocurrency,” explained the U.S. Mission Nigeria in the tweet.

This accord amid the FBI and Nigeria comes as the closing continues to attack with the abundant incidences of crypto-related crimes. Although Nigeria has had successes in arrest some crypto artifice cases or apprehending masterminds like Omotade-Sparks Amos Sewanu of the abominable Inksnation crypto Ponzi scheme. However, abounding cryptocurrency-related crimes in that country remained unresolved.

High Number of Crypto Fraud Cases

The aerial cardinal of crypto artifice cases in Nigeria has in the accomplished prompted bodies like the Nigeria Securities and Exchange Commission to affair accessible warnings or advisories that beat crypto-related activities. However, admitting these warnings or the restrictions imposed by the axial bank, Nigerian absorption and use of cryptocurrencies abide to grow.

However, afterward the training exercise, admiral now achievement to about-face the screws adjoin abyss that accept ahead fabricated Nigeria a safe anchorage for crypto fraudsters.

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