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attracting people as a popular cryptocurrency exchange, I told you about the incident just before the case where the management team paid only for money.



As more people want to buy virtual currency, these fraudulent crimes are also on the rise, but reporter Han Sung-hee pointed out whether there is a solution.



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[Victor A: It's important to get the money, we are.]



[Company employee: You're trying to help, me too.]



[Victor B: All dive out.] The



managers are in the Gangnam area. Victims are protesting at the cryptocurrency exchange.



[VGlobal officials come down!

VGlobal officials come down!]




Judging by the police arrests alone, the damage related to cryptocurrency exchanges is on an explosive increase.



However, companies are cleverly avoiding the law.



It encourages customers to buy and invest in famous coins such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.



[Han Sang-Jun/Attorney: If you receive it in won, it will cause problems, so'You can deposit your won and buy Ethereum. And it is inducing in this way by investing in another third-party cryptocurrency through Ethereum.]



I am trying to avoid applying the pseudo-reception method, because it is not clear whether or not the cryptocurrency can be viewed as cash.



[Police investigators: (the nearby investigators) did not know well because they only investigated transactions that received money. It's not clear, so I... .]



It is not easy to prove a suspicion of fraud if you claim that the business was only closed due to business difficulties while operating normally.



[Han Sang-jun/Attorney: In some cases, there are cases where the charges of fraud are not applicable. Then somehow, even the law on similar receiving behaviors must be applied to be punished... .]



Until now, it has been possible to establish a cryptocurrency exchange without any restrictions, but from September this year, regulations such as that the CEO or executive must not have a criminal record of financial crime apply.



However, as fraudulent damage related to cryptocurrency exchanges is frequent in recent years, it is urgent to establish more stringent standards.



[Kim Hyung-joong/Director of Korea University Cryptocurrency Research Center: The requirements for establishing an exchange must be determined (more strictly) by law. There are several conditions (applicable from September), but when establishing a bank, it is much more complicated than that.]



(Video coverage: Lee Chan-soo, Choi Choi Woong, video editing: Kim Seon-tak, CG: Park Dong-soo)