In the United States will close the department for combating cryptocreements

The department of the department involved in the cases related to digital currencies will be disbanded in order to execute the decree of Trump.

The US Department of Justice is abolishing a unit engaged in cryptocurrency investigations, writes Fortune. According to the publication, the agency has already notified employees of the National Cryptocurrency EnforcesMent Team (NCET).

The Deputy Prosecutor General of the United States Todd Blanche, the second most important official in the Department of Justice and lawyer of US President Donald Trump during his criminal process in 2024, said that NCET was disbanded “immediately as part of the agency’s efforts to comply with the January decree on digital assets, the purpose of which was to” ensure the clarity of regulation “for the industry.

NCET was created at the beginning of 2022 and was a target group, which included representatives of the prosecutor’s office, the FBI and lawyers from various departments of the Ministry of Justice, including the department for the laundering of money and cybercrime. The Department’s website says that NCET worked on investigations related to the criminal use of digital assets, with a special emphasis on cryptocurrency exchange, mixing services, market manipulation and providing infrastructure and other actions that allowed unlawful use of cryptocurrencies, as well as in relation to persons who used cryptotechnology to deceive the public.

During the work of the unit, it was dealt with by the founder of Bitzlato Anatoly Light Dyamov, the department was investigated against the founder of BTC-E Alexander Vinnik. Also, the department with the submission of NCET charged the developers of the Tornado Cash mixer and other projects related to the anonymity of transactions. The Ministry of Justice’s investigation against Binance, begun back in 2018, also passed under the control of the target group after its creation.

One of the last high -profile cryptocurrency cases of the ministry also became the accusations against the founder of the cryptocurrency marketer -maker company GotBit Alexei Andryunin and the blocking of $ 26 million and the sites of the Russian Crypto -Railway GaratEx.

As part of the settlements of the defense of the Ministry of Justice, the OKX exchange in February pledged to pay fines for $ 500 million, a month earlier, Kucoin agreed to $ 300 million. At the end of 2023, Binance replaced Chanpan Zhao at the head of the head and paid a fine of $ 4.3 billion. Later they sentenced the $ 50 to a final penalty for $ 50 Milly and prison term for four months. He was released at the end of September 2024.

“The Ministry of Justice is not a regulator of digital assets. However, the previous administration was used by the Ministry of Justice to implement a reckless regulation strategy by judicial persecution, ”Blanche journalists quoted.

He instructed the employees of the Ministry to focus on “persecution of persons who are damaged by investors in digital assets”, and not to initiate cases against crypto-rope, mixers and “offline koshelkov”. There were no official messages from the ministry.

Earlier this year, following Trump’s instructions, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) began to turn off the investigation and terminate the lawsuit against cryptocurrency companies. The regulator has already stopped proceedings with Binance, Gemini, Coinbase, NFT Opensea NFT-market and Robinhood, with the Uniswap decentralized platform, Metamask cryptocurular and a number of other services.

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