2024-01-31 09:50:51
The Civil Guard has arrested a person in Barcelona who was the owner of several cryptocurrency addresses that operated on three different networks and were linked to multiple addresses.
forming a network with branches in several countries whose purpose was to raise funds and transmit them to the terrorist group DAESH.
The operation carried out by the Information Service of the Civil Guard, under the direction of the Central Court of Instruction No. 6 and the Prosecutor’s Office of the National Court, has ended with the
arrest in Barcelona of a person involved in terrorist crimes, who has already been brought to justice and is in provisional detention.
As explained by the Ministry of the Interior, since the appearance of cryptocurrencies, this Benemérita service has implemented research activities on this new method of transmitting value with the purpose of preventing and detecting that it could be used to finance activities. terrorists.
This aspect of terrorist financing through cryptocurrencies has developed since the beginning of the last decade, having increased its intensity since then and, especially, after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thus, and as they continue to report from the Interior, in this way these current sophisticated means of financing promoted by fully specialized crypto-jihadists severely complicate the investigations of the security services.
“It is at this point where international cooperation becomes one of the most decisive instruments to be able to neutralize these networks, since the activity carried out through them is increasingly important and has become one of the priorities of security agencies in the fight against terrorism,” they conclude.
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