{"id":15158,"date":"2025-02-26T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15158"},"modified":"2025-02-26T17:16:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T17:16:46","slug":"uk-introduces-crime-bill-that-extends-powers-for-courts-when-retrieving-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=15158","title":{"rendered":"UK Introduces Crime Bill That Extends Powers for Courts When Retrieving Crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The U.K. government introduced a <a href=\"https:\/\/bills.parliament.uk\/bills\/3938\" target=\"_blank\">new crime bill on Tuesday<\/a> that, if passed, aims to help law enforcement agencies retrieve money from crypto criminals.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Home Office&#8217;s Crime and Policing Bill introduces measures that set out how to value destructed crypto property &#8211; in the event law enforcement agencies required it to be destroyed if it cant be sold &#8211; plus, conditions for how courts can retrieve funds and extends the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.judiciary.uk\/courts-and-tribunals\/crown-court\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crown Court powers<\/a> in regards to confiscation orders.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This bill will strengthen the ability of the criminal justice system to pursue those who have benefited from criminal activity,&#8221; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/crime-and-policing-bill-2025-factsheets\/crime-and-policing-bill-proceeds-of-crime-factsheet\" target=\"_blank\">corresponding factsheet said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This bill builds off the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act which was enforced in 2023 and enabled cops to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2023\/09\/19\/uk-crime-bill-lets-cops-freeze-crypto-faster-channels-tainted-assets-to-public-funding\" target=\"_blank\">freeze and seize crypto faster<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2023\/09\/19\/uk-crime-bill-lets-cops-freeze-crypto-faster-channels-tainted-assets-to-public-funding\" target=\"_blank\">UK Crime Bill Lets Cops Freeze Crypto Faster, Channels Tainted Assets to Public Funding<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.K. government introduced a new crime bill on Tuesday that, if passed, aims to help law enforcement agencies retrieve money from crypto criminals. The Home Office&#8217;s Crime and Policing Bill introduces measures that set out how to value destructed crypto property &#8211; in the event law enforcement agencies required it to be destroyed if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-15158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}