Crypto Industry Lobbies Against Bills Targeting n Oligarchs Evading Sanctions Using Cryptocurrency

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Crypto Industry Lobbies Against Bills Targeting n Oligarchs Evading Sanctions Using Cryptocurrency

The crypto industry is lobbying U.S. lawmakers against two bills aimed at preventing n oligarchs from using cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions. The U.S. and many other countries placed sanctions on them after  began its invasion of e.

Bills Preventing Wealthy ns From Using Crypto to Avoid Sanctions

The Blockchain Association has been lobbying U.S. lawmakers against two bills designed to prevent n oligarchs from using cryptocurrency to evade sanctions imposed on them after  began its invasion of e, CNBC reported last week.

The first is a House bill titled “n Digital Asset Sanctions Compliance Act of 2022.” The other is a Senate bill sponsored by crypto skeptic Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) titled “Digital Asset Sanctions Compliance Enhancement Act of 2022.”

The bills give the Biden administration the authority to prohibit U.S. crypto exchanges from processing payments from . They would also allow U.S. authorities to sanction foreign exchanges process transactions by sanctioned n people or companies.

The organization represents more than 70 crypto platforms, including AAVE, Anchorage Digital, Ava Labs, Bitdeer, Blockchain Capital, Blockfi, Brevan Howard, Chainalysis, Circle, Crypto.com, Digital Currency Group, Dragonfly Capital, Etoro, Grayscale, Kraken, Ripple, Silvergate, Solana, Terra, Voyager, and Wicklow Capital.

The group is trying to convince lawmakers that cryptocurrency is not being used by wealthy ns to avoid sanctions.

Curtis Kincaid, a spokesperson for Blockchain Association, explained that the organization is trying to convince lawmakers to “separate fact from fiction on the inability of  to transfer large sums of money via crypto transactions in order to evade sanctions,” the publication conveyed.

Lawyer Jake Chervinsky, policy head at the association, commented:

These bills don’t target n oligarchs, who aren’t using (& can’t use) crypto to evade sanctions. They target upstanding US crypto companies for no apparent reason except Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s crusade against a technology she doesn’t understand.

While some lawmakers are worried about the use of crypto to circumvent sanctions, many experts have said that crypto is not an effective tool for sanctions evasion. A U.S. Treasury official said in March: “We don’t see that crypto could be used in a large-scale way to evade sanctions.”

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