{"id":35321,"date":"2021-01-25T19:27:04","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T17:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=35321"},"modified":"2025-08-29T00:46:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T21:46:57","slug":"derbyshire-police-select-custodian-for-confiscated-cryptocurrency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/derbyshire-police-select-custodian-for-confiscated-cryptocurrency\/","title":{"rendered":"Derbyshire police select custodian for confiscated cryptocurrency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Derbyshire Police (UK) have signed a contract with the custodian service Komainu. The company will provide authorities with storage services for confiscated digital assets, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/komainu-to-support-uk-law-enforcement-in-the-fight-against-crime-involving-digital-assets-301212431.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">\u043f\u0440\u0435\u0441\u0441-\u0440\u0435\u043b\u0438\u0437\u0435<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Komainu will cooperate with all UK law enforcement agencies. Assistant Chief Constable Angela McLaren noted that specialist units regularly seize cryptocurrency in investigations and need secure storage of digital currencies.<\/p>\n<p>Phil Ariss, head of the cybercrime enforcement program, said in a comment to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/post\/92190\/british-police-komainu-crime-crypto\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The Block<\/a> that previous methods did not guarantee the safekeeping of confiscated assets.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe need a dedicated solution for storing them, because this involves large sums,\u201d said Ariss.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In 2018, Japanese investment bank Nomura, the developer of hardware wallets Ledger, and investment company CoinShares founded Komainu, a custodian service geared toward institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p>In November 2020, analytics company Chainalysis announced the launch of a program that will help government agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-launches-program-to-sell-seized-bitcoins\">store and sell<\/a> confiscated cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Derbyshire Police (UK) have signed a contract with the custodian service Komainu. The company will provide authorities with storage services for confiscated digital assets, according to the press release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35322,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1172,810],"class_list":["post-35321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-seized-bitcoins","tag-united-kingdom"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"19","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35323,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35321\/revisions\/35323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}