Money Laundering by Cryptocurrency Transaction

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Visoot Kajchamaporn

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Money laundering is a process that criminals can use to legitimatize their illegal money and fund crimes. Criminals usually seek for opportunities from modern money laundering tools to avoid rules, regulations, and limitations in laundering their interests. ‘Cryptocurrency’ is a financial innovation that enables users to conduct peer-to-peer transactions globally in a speedy manner without any central controlling agency. It may be used as a tool for money laundering. Crimes with an opportunity to use cryptocurrency as a tool for money laundering are mostly economic crimes or cybercrimes. These crimes usually create wide damages to victims and foster great benefits to criminals. The mechanism of cryptocurrency has the potential to reduce the connection of the transaction path between the source and the destination. It can avoid or be free from being tracked, confiscated, or having the users arrested by officers. Appropriate preventive measures are as follows. Increase the efficiency of user verification by making a national Know Your Customer (KYC) data center. Closely monitor swapping transactions between cryptocurrency and legal currency. Foster skills and knowledge about cryptocurrency correctly to officers and members of the general public. Improve the rules and regulations for the prosecution of cases related to cryptocurrency. Utilize a program to detect suspicious transactions on blockchain technology.

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