Wide-bore authorization to limit or freeze transactions in a new draft bill has the crypto industry calling foul.
their draft language for the America COMPETES Act, a bill that aims to bolster the US in its global rivalry with China.
The Biden administration's legislative agenda has faced a number of hurdles. The 3,000-page bill seems to be an attempt to garner a legislative win based on bipartisan concerns over China in advance of the November midterm elections. However, some in the crypto world are calling out a provision entitled"Prohibitions or Conditions on Certain Transmittals of Funds."
The section cites national security concerns over ransomware as a reason to expand the oversight authority of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, the US Treasury's anti-money laundering office. The Treasury repeats itsof $590 million in ransomware payments tracked in"just the first half of 2021."
"These innovations, particularly through digital assets and informal value transfer systems, while useful to legitimate consumers, are also a boon for bad actors like sanctions evaders, fraudsters, money launderers, and those who commit ransomware at tacks on victimized U.S. companies and which use the financial system to move and obscure the proceeds of their crimes."
The Treasury's solution is to give FinCEN broad authorization to freeze or limit transactions from jurisdictions or even just accounts to be deemed"of primary money laundering concern."
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