Two years after the huge amount of “cryptographic assets” leaked 18 billion yen already money laundering or January 26 at 21:08
It is just two years in 26 days from the case where crypto assets (so-called virtual currency) worth 58 billion yen were leaked. Most of the 18 billion yen that could be tracked was taken to an exchange abroad by this month, and an expert study found that money laundering may have already taken place.
On January 26, approximately 58 billion yen worth of cryptocurrency was leaked from a major exchange company, Coincheck, which attracted attention as an unprecedented huge outflow.
The criminal has not been cleared yet, but a research team such as Associate Professor Kazunari Men of the University of Tsukuba has used a mechanism of cryptographic assets, where transactions are recorded on the Internet, to track them.
As a result, the leaked crypto assets were exchanged for other crypto assets, of which 18 billion yen of `` bitcoin '' that could be tracked was distributed to tens of millions of accounts from around December in December Is to be seen.
Bitcoin was later found to have been introduced, little by little, with a time lag, and in some way, by this month, mostly to at least five cryptocurrency exchanges abroad, including in Europe, Asia, and South America.
If they are brought into the clearinghouse, it will be easier to redeem and exchange for other crypto assets, and it will be difficult to track them later, which means that money laundering may have already taken place.
"The criminal may have spent time exploring money laundering, finding a hard-to-reach overseas clearinghouse, and having already cashed it. We need to strengthen it. "