The Criminal Assets Bureau is seeing more crafty criminals using cryptocurrency to hide their ill-gotten gains.
Bureau legal officer Kevin McMeel admitted that it’s trickier for the Garda agency to get at cyber-savvy thugs but they are facing them head on and winning.
Speaking on a two-part series about the work of the organisation, Mr McMeel said: “We at the Criminal Assets Bureau see the increased use of cryptocurrency as being a unique challenge that we have, but it’s one I think we have met quite well in recent years.
