{"id":59929,"date":"2022-04-11T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T12:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=59929"},"modified":"2025-09-05T00:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T21:39:38","slug":"three-australians-charged-with-money-laundering-via-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/three-australians-charged-with-money-laundering-via-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Australians Charged With Money Laundering Via Cryptocurrencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia, police arrested three men on suspicion of drug trafficking and money laundering via cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Three men charged after almost $4.7 million cash, 5kg of drugs and cryptocurrency teller machines seized \u2014 Strike Force Mactier<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gSaI04NIzH\">https:\/\/t.co\/gSaI04NIzH<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nE1NBYFmVA\">pic.twitter.com\/nE1NBYFmVA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NSW Police Force (@nswpolice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nswpolice\/status\/1512837945673191430?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, federal authorities in the United States participated in the investigation. During the search, law enforcement seized about $4.7 million in cash, 5 kg of drugs, three cryptocurrency ATMs, laptops and mobile phones.<\/p>\n<p>The men were charged with money laundering of proceeds of crime and distribution of drugs. One of them was denied bail.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in October 2021, the Victoria Police uncovered one of the country\u2019s largest criminal syndicates. According to investigators, the group <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/australian-police-arrest-alleged-organisers-of-62-million-cryptocurrency-money-laundering-scheme\">laundered at least $62 million<\/a> through cryptocurrencies, using dormant bank accounts of 250 Chinese students.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, law enforcement authorities as part of the investigation into darknet drug trafficking confiscated a record sum in cryptocurrency \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/australian-police-seize-countrys-largest-ever-cryptocurrency-haul\">about $6 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 all the news, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news, infographics and opinions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Australia, police arrested three men on suspicion of drug trafficking and money laundering via cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59930,"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":[108,1154],"class_list":["post-59929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-australia","tag-crimes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"18","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59929","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=59929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59931,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59929\/revisions\/59931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}