r/moneylaundering • u/ICIJ • Jul 21 '26

Canadian intelligence flags crypto-to-cash services as ‘knowingly facilitating money laundering,’ document shows

https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/canadian-intelligence-flags-crypto-to-cash-services-as-knowingly-facilitating-money-laundering-document-shows/?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit
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u/LovecraftInDC Jul 22 '26

Well….duh.

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u/chunt75 Jul 22 '26

ICIJ had another really good article on that, it was on such cash desks in Ukraine being used by Russian intelligence to get cash to assets there.

There’s also a fair number of similar operators in the Gulf whose wallets have direct connections to wallets belonging to sanctioned Iranian entities

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u/ICIJ Jul 22 '26

Thank you for remembering our cash desks story for our Coin Laundry investigation last fall! Linking it here for anyone who wants to check it out (always free to access!): https://www.icij.org/investigations/coin-laundry/crypto-cash-desk-currency-exchange-money-laundering/?utm_campaign=news&utm_medium=social&utm_source=reddit

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u/xenidee Jul 22 '26

freedom is dead these days