During July 22-23, 2019, with the support of the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, an international workshop on crypto-assets is held in the SFMS.

During the mentioned workshop, the representative of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime together with a specialist from the FIU of Moldova shares the experience of analyzing, using and tracking crypto-assets in the AML/CFT area.

The agenda of the mentioned workshop provides for discussion on:

-      the difference between traditional, electronic and virtual currencies

-      the global regulatory landscape for VC services and how to identify and categorize VC services;

-       custom clusters and STRs;

-      bitcoin ecosystem and community.

Conducting such kind of international workshops allows the SFMS to be vigilant during the investigation and analysis of STRs using the latest technologies and, in particular, virtual assets for ML/FT purposes.

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