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Illicit crypto transactions reached all-time highs in 2022: Report

2023-01-13No Comments2 Mins Read
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2022 set the record in illicit on-chain transactions, setting aside the criminal investigations of failed crypto businesses like FTX, Celsius, Three Arrows Capital, Terraform Labs and others. According to a Jan. 12 report from Chainalysis, the total cryptocurrency value received by illicit addresses reached $20.1 billion last year.

The numbers aren’t final, as the measure of illicit transaction volume grows over time as the analysts identify new addresses associated with criminal activity. Moreover, it doesn’t include proceeds from non-crypto native crimes like drug trafficking and the funds on the balance of the above-mentioned failed companies, which are now under investigation in various jurisdictions around the globe.

At this point, the total value of $20.1 billion slightly exceeds the same measure in 2021 ($18 billion) by 10%. However, it still represents an all-time record and significantly (by 60%) transcends the 2020 marker, which stands at $8 billion.

Such numbers can be explained by the fact that 44% of 2022’s illicit transactions account for sanctioned entities: Last year, the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) launched some of its “most ambitious and difficult-to-enforce” crypto sanctions. Sanctions-related transaction volumes rose so drastically that they couldn’t even be included on the graphs due to scale issues. Chainalysis evaluates this growth at the 10% million mark.

Related: Sanctions couldn’t ‘pull the plug’ on Tornado Cash: Chainalysis

The report cites an example of crypto exchange Garantex. The Russian platform continued to operate while being listed on the OFAC sanctions register in April, and it hosted the majority of sanctions-related transaction volume in 2022.

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As Eric Jardine, cybercrimes research lead at Chainalysis, explained to Cointelegraph that the report counts wallets as “illicit” when they are part of a known illicit entity, such as a darknet market or sanctioned platform. Personal or unhosted wallets may be tagged as illicit if they are holding funds stolen in a hack. However:

“If a personal/unhosted wallet sent money to Tornado Cash after its designation, that wallet would not be tagged as illicit for that activity, but the transaction volume would be considered ‘illicit’ because it involves funds received by an illicit entity.”

In early January, the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Crime Unit launched a cryptocurrency unit to investigate U.K. cyber incidents involving the use of cryptocurrencies. This move aims to increase enforcement focus on crypto assets in the country amid the government’s call to eliminate “dirty money” in the country.

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