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US Department of Justice creates cryptocurrency enforcement unit

The Verge

The National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Team (NCET) will handle investigations of “crimes committed by virtual currency exchanges, mixing and tumbling services, and money laundering infrastructure actors,” the agency said in a news release. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Daily Crunch: GoMechanic lays off 70% after investors discover ‘founders knowingly misstated facts’

TechCrunch

“Overnight, the Department worked with key partners here and abroad to disrupt Bitzlato, the China-based money-laundering engine that fueled a high-tech axis of cryptocrime, and to arrest its founder, Russian national Anatoly Legkodymov,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa O.

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