UK Crime Bill Lets Cops Freeze Crypto Faster, Channels Tainted Assets to Public Funding

“One area this will be used is on occasions where assets have been identified, significant links to criminality can be proven, but the subject of the investigation is unlikely to face justice in the U.K. – think of those committing fraud outside of the U.K. and targeting U.K. residents,” said Ariss, who was crypto lead at the U.K. National Police Chiefs’ Council cybercrime unit and is on sabbatical from the U.K. police force.