By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

US court gives opinion on the application of sanctions to cryptocurrency

The US District Court for the District of Columbia has unsealed a memorandum opinion approving a government criminal complaint which alleges that an unnamed US citizen violated US sanctions by operating an online payment platform based in a sanctioned jurisdiction. It is alleged that the payment platform was advertised as designed to evade US sanctions using virtual currency, and that …

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Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters &...

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