27,000 requests last year: Collaboration key for Binance’s Investigations team By Cointelegraph

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27,000 requests last year: Collaboration key for Binance’s Investigations team

Historical crime has left a proverbial black mark on the cryptocurrency ecosystem with multi-million dollar hacks, scams and fraud cases grabbing headlines around the world.

Various research reports have highlighted the use of cryptocurrencies for illicit means, with varying degrees of severity since Bitcoin’s inception in 2009. This has ebbed and flowed but crypto is still perceived by some as a means to launder money, finance terrorism and facilitate other serious crimes.

Cointelegraph’s Gareth Jenkinson alongside Binance’s Investigations and Intelligence senior manager Jennifer Hicks and department head Nils Andersen-Röed at Web Summit in Lisbon in November 2022.

Busy workload

Collaborative efforts

A guiding hand