RCMP asks crypto exchanges to halt trading for wallets connected to truck convoy protests By Cointelegraph

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As reported by Canadian news outlet The Globe and Mail, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Canada’s federal police force) sent letters to several cryptocurrency exchanges demanding that they “cease facilitating any transactions” with more than 30 specific cryptocurrency wallet addresses linked to the ongoing truck protests in the country. The letter writes:

Just two days prior, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, representing the ruling Liberal Party of Canada, invoked the Emergencies Act in response to a convoy of truckers occupying the nation’s capital (Ottawa) in protest of COVID-19 health and vaccine restrictions. The protest has been ongoing for 20 days. Under the Act, banks have the discretional power to freeze Freedom Convoy protesters’ bank accounts with no civil liabilities.